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Maint branches on my github (Score:1)
FWIW, I've done similar work in the past and published it on my github clone of the perl repository:
git://github.com/dagolden/perl.git
Relevant branches are:
maint-5.6.2
maint-5.8.0
maint-5.8.1
maint-5.8.2
maint-5.8.3
maint-5.8.4
maint-5.8.5
maint-5.8.6
maint-5.8.7
maint-5.8.8
Hope that helps others looking to build old versions of Perl.
-- David