This software is compiled for use with glibc-2.0.5 You have first to install the library package! Installation hints: None. Bugs: There are some... Seems to be that something is worth with trigometric functions in glibc. Here's the result of the test: lib/complex.........FAILED tests 163, 174, 185, 247, 251, 254, 262, 334, 372, 460, 483-484, 493, 504, 515, 549, 619, 798-799, 804-805, 807, 816, 827-828, 839-840, 847, 932, 934, 952 Failed 31/1001 tests, 96.90% okay lib/odbm............dubious Test returned status 127 (wstat 32512, 0x7f00) lib/trig............FAILED test 5 Failed 1/7 tests, 85.71% okay Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lib/complex.t 1001 31 3.10% 163, 174, 185, 247, 251, 254, 262, 334, 372, 460, 483-484, 493, 504, 515, 549, 619, 798-799, 804- 805, 807, 816, 827-828, 839-840, 847, 932, 934, 952 lib/odbm.t 127 32512 ?? ?? % ?? lib/trig.t 7 1 14.29% 5 The test in lib/complex have the most errors by calculating sin(0.5) -> See Bugs of gibc-2.0.6 < or have problems with the wrong prefix (+/-) Sorry that this is no 100% correct version of Perl. If I discover the error, you will find a new version at this place with 100% added ;-) Contents of the perl5.004_04.tar TAR-Archive: -rwxr-xr-x root/root 90044 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/a2p -rwxr-xr-x root/root 36353 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/c2ph -rwxr-xr-x root/root 12250 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/find2perl -rwxr-xr-x root/root 7431 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/h2ph -rwxr-xr-x root/root 21539 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/h2xs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 486681 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/bin/perl -rwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/bin/perl5.00404 link to usr/bin/perl -rwxr-xr-x root/root 28612 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/perlbug -rwxr-xr-x root/root 12675 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/perldoc -rwxr-xr-x root/root 4229 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/pl2pm -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2338 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/pod2html -rwxr-xr-x root/root 22309 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/pod2latex -rwxr-xr-x root/root 28439 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/pod2man -rwxr-xr-x root/root 177 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/pod2text -rwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/pstruct link to usr/bin/c2ph -rwxr-xr-x root/root 14942 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/s2p -rwxr-xr-x root/root 14036 1997-11-24 11:47 usr/bin/splain -r--r--r-- root/root 2553 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/AnyDBM_File.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 8420 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/AutoLoader.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 11872 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/AutoSplit.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 10037 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Benchmark.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 728 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Bundle/CPAN.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 153617 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CGI.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 2396 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CGI/Apache.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 6537 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CGI/Carp.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 5408 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CGI/Fast.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 7277 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CGI/Push.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 1564 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CGI/Switch.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 115082 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CPAN.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 11030 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CPAN/FirstTime.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 630 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/CPAN/Nox.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 4451 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Carp.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 13829 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Class/Struct.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 10003 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Cwd.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 4519 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Devel/SelfStubber.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 1353 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/DirHandle.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 3208 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/English.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 1620 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Env.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 14112 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Exporter.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 3481 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/ExtUtils/Command.pm -r--r--r-- root/root 12181 1997-11-24 11:45 usr/lib/perl5/Ex [...] -rw-r--r-- root/root 10009 1997-11-24 13:24 usr/man/man1/splain.1 -rw-r--r-- root/root 6500 1997-11-24 13:26 usr/man/man1/xsubpp.1