Perl 5.10.1
Okay, to heck with the release candidates...Perl 5.10.1 has been released (today is my birthday...what an ossum birthday present)!
wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
tar xjf perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
cd perl-5.10.1
perl Configure -de -Dprefix=${HOME}/local -Dusethreads
make
make test
make install
Now let's see if I can get all the Modern Perl modules I want to use installed from source. I've been using the Perl 5.10.0 that's in /usr/bin/perl with a mixture of modules loaded with apt-get and cpanp. I don't want to wait for Ubuntu to upgrade to Perl 5.10.1, so I'll have to do without the apt-get option. It's probably just as well. In the long run, that mixed configuration was probably trouble anyway.
Comments
This worked well for me using RedHat EL5, 65bit. I combined it with "http://github.com/jjn1056/catalyst-app-example-locallibapp/tree" and had a really nice, localized development setup.
John