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6.1.1.5 Perl

FIXME: Used for some preprocessing (for logging and test suite preparation) and for the log viewer. Using version v5.8.1-RC3.

Need the Tk package for the log viewer. It can be installed from CPAN. Note that if you use Mac OS X, as does the maintainer, you need to install Perl from scratch (say, in /usr/local) in dynamic mode in order to use Tk. The instructions are included in the Perl source. Don't forget to start X before running a Perl/Tk program. But it works really well.

Also need the following packages: Tk::Columns. (Note that we need the version 0.03 of this package, which is not the version that CPAN installs, for some reason. The previous versions just crash, on both Mac OS X and Linux. So just install it manually.)