mods for compiling perl && perl common packages

[Alasdair Baird]

> Well, I do not know the situation for students in my country, but  
> I'm a civil servant for the Dutch Meteorological Institute, and I  
> got a letter last week that summoned me to write up all my  
> activities outside the 36-hour office week, whether paid or unpaid:

I could see this as being a difficult one to answer; starting with the
obvious breathing, eating and sleeping, there is the difficult question
of whether to ask permission to walk up the street to the shop to buy
bread and a newspaper as opposed to just buying either the bread or the
newspaper...


   Alasdair.