perl-5.005 on slink?

[Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za>]

After the discussion on upgrading from slink to potato using apt-get
source I decided to try it.  I could not use apt-get for a long time
now because it complained about the absence of perl-5.005 required by
postgresql 6.5.2 which I installed by compiling the debian sources and
dpkg. So I decided to try and install perl-5.005 on slink using
apt-get source.

It did not work.  The compilation process complained about
inconsistent variable definitions from /usr/include/gnus/types.h and
/usr/include/bits/types.h.

I then tried to determine whether one of them was not supposed to be
there.  My system was at one stage a bit messy.  I could not find
/usr/include/bits/types.h in the Contents-file of both Potato or Slink
so I was stupid enough to remove it.

Now the compilation fails with the following error message:

In file included from /usr/include/sys/statvfs.h:26,
                 from perl.h:2567,
                 from sperl.c:15:
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:30: parse error before `__fsblkcnt_t'
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:30: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:31: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:32: parse error before `f_bavail'
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:32: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:33: parse error before `f_files'
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:33: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:34: parse error before `f_ffree'
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:34: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:35: parse error before `f_favail'
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:35: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/bits/statvfs.h:48: parse error before `}'
make[1]: *** [sperl.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jhspies/potato/perl-5.005-5.005.03'
make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2


Now I have a few questions:

1. If I cannot find /usr/include/bits/types.h in the
Contents-file. Where does it come from?  Which package can I reinstall
to get it back.  I could not find it using dpkg -S either.

2. Is it possible to install perl-5.005_5.005.03 on slink?

Thanks for help.

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