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in reply to Which prerequisite packages should you have installed before building Perl on GNU/Linux?

That is, I don't want the Configure script to throw up its hands and tell me, "Sorry, couldn't find such-and-such on this system so I won't be compiling this Perl to use it. Tsk tsk tsk.".
Really? What's the harm in that? Running configure takes about a minute. Run it, and see whether it throws up its hand or not.