Upgrade Perl on 10.3.9

[Jason]

I’m looking to upgrade Perl on 10.3.9 to the current version of 5.8.7. Panther, of course, already includes 5.8.1-RC3.

Can I ust download it and go through the usual…

./configure
make
make install

…and have it work? I want to pave over to current version of 5.8.1-RC3 and keep 5.8.7 at /usr/bin/perl while still maintaining the @INC directories and /System/Library/Perl, etc. etc. etc.

I found this document while doing a search on Google
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/perl.html

But it’s talking about upgrading from an even earlier version (5.6) and I assume the stuff talking about not being binary compatible with older versions wouldn’t apply to me because I’m already using 5.8.1-RC3.

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