I wonder how many revisions this will need ...This fixes the reported versiononly issue, fixes setup.hint and adds /usr/share/doc/perl-5.8.8. That's why it's larger, if you wonder.
http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/setup.hint http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-4.tar.bz2 http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-4-src.tar.bz2 cd perl_manpageswget http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl_manpages/setup.hint
mv perl_manpages-5.8.8-3.tar.bz2 perl_manpages-5.8.8-4.tar.bz2 this is just renamed, or download it from http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl_manpages/perl_manpages-5.8.8-4.tar.bz2 Thanks. -- Reini
