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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Perl</title>
+ <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue highlighted by recent
+ versions of gdbm:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and
Compress::Raw::BZip2 modules. By
default Perl will use an internal copy of the sources for the build.