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Building and understanding a PERL build. I am working on porting a WEB application from SOLARIS to TRU64. I have built, and rebuild perl trying to come up with a consistant build. Sometimes it fails, some times there are no problems  but then I can not connect to the database. Sometimes the build reports errors in my makefile and on and on and on.

I would like some documentation on properly installing and analyzing a build.  Some diagnostic hints and tips, a tool that can analyze exactly what is contained in a build.  Any help would be great.
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You should look at: http://www.metronet.com/~tye/perlsvr4.html
This book covers Perl internals farily well, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/

Also according to www.perl.com 
....Starting from Tru64 V5.0 Perl 5 ships standard with Tru64. (As of Tru64 V5.0 5.004_04, but 5.005_03 is on the supplementary freeware CD-ROM.)...


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Great, thanks for the info.
Glad to help. If this was what you were after, I can propose my comments as an answer if you like.
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Really strange, wonder why you would have to perform this cludge to get a clean perl install? I guess this is why it is recomended that you only use perl as a tool, and never include it in a production product.  The funny thing is that the port I am working on is using perl as their primary development language (A big performance mistake!). Yes, they did make the right choice when it came to CPU intensive processes, and they wrote those in C (No not C++), should have used C++, but C++ has not caught on over here in E-Germany, or W-Germany for that matter.

But, the good news is that they have identified perl as a major bottle neck in their Web Application and are moving to JAVA, not to say JAVA will fix all of their performance problems, but it will help in the portability of their application.

Ok, I thank you for your input and will except it as an answer.

Thanks much,
Dave Hymes
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