According to the Packaging Manual on Distribution support:
perl 5.8.6: 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
which matches what I remember from previous discussions of deprecating
old langversions. We don't support 10.3 in this tree and 10.4's
system-perl is 5.8.6, but our perl586 package in current unstable is:
PS: One can surmise the problem lies in the
Mac-specific parts of the script (l.127-177
and 541-583), else the problem would already
have been noticed on other platforms..
JF
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Output of a perl script in the hc pkg is right
(ie, in accord with the intent of the script)
with some versions of perl and not with others
_ including that fink's and Apple's 5.8.8 differ.
The attachment contains the perl-script,
the input file (a short excerpt of a
compiler temp file in