Compiling Perl from Source on Linux

These are the commands I use when I install Perl from source on a Linux server.

perl-5.8.9]#
./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr/local
make
make test
make install
cd /usr/bin
mv perl original.perl
ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl
mv cpan original.cpan
ln -s /usr/local/bin/cpan
mv perldoc original.perldoc
ln -s /usr/local/bin/perldoc

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