>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ken> You can probably just get the 5.6.0 distribution, go into the Ken> GDBM_File directory, and install from there to your main perl, without Ken> installing any other pieces. I've never tried this, but I think it Ken> should work. In any case, you certainly shouldn't be forced to Ken> upgrade perl just for the privilege of getting GDBM_File installed. There was a time when Perl would not let you select anything "after the fact" that was in the core distro. Once it had decided that GDBM wasn't available, you simply couldn't use it, even if you tried to take the portion of the distro for GDBM and manually compile/install it later. You had to re-./configure and build the entire distro again. That may have been fixed, but I'm still suspicious. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!