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Use Case	Command	Description
Compile Perl from source	perl Configure, make, make test, make install	🛠️ Build and install Perl, following the INSTALL file for system-specific workarounds
Store multidimensional array in DBM	use MLDBM; or use DBM::Deep;	🗄️ Use MLDBM with DB_File or GDBM_File, or DBM::Deep for structured data storage

❓ I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?

📖 Read the INSTALL file, which is part of the source distribution. It describes in detail how to cope with most idiosyncrasies that the Configure script can't work around for any given system or architecture.

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❓ How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?

🔧 Either stringify the structure yourself (no fun), or else get the MLDBM (which uses Data::Dumper) module from CPAN and layer it on top of either DB_File or GDBM_File. You might also try DBM::Deep, but it can be a bit slow.

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