Well isn't that nice. The boxes I care most about are 32 bit. The perl I use is 5.0 circa 2008. May you amiga386, or anyone else, thank you in advance, may be able to tell me what do I need to upgrade to perl 5.8? Is it only perl 5.8 and whatever is the contemporaneous gcc? Will the rest of my Suse 11.1 circa 2008, crunch? May I have two gcc's on the same box/distro version, and give the path to the later one when I need it? The reason I am still with Suse 11.1, is later releases broke other earlier things I care about, and I could not fix.

suse 11.1 includes perl 5.10: https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/...

perl 5.8 was released in 2002. perl 5.000 (there is no perl 5.0) was released in 1994. I have difficulty accepting you have perl "5.0" installed.

I assumed 5.0 was referring to using any of the 5.00x series.