GDBM Install

Greetings,
I have been given the job of porting Perl from 5.005 to 5.8.3
on a hpux platform. The Perl code uses GDBM in quite a few places, but
the depot that we installed 5.8.3 from did not include the
GDBM_File.pm perl module.

I ported the code to use SDBM, but immediately discovered that
there are key/value pairs that exceed the 1008 byte limit that SDBM
has. I have considered NDBM and ODBM, but they both also have the 1008
byte limitation. It looks like we must use GDBM because it does not
have the 1008 byte limitation that the other three have.

Because GDBM is included in the core Perl package now, I
cannot find it as a separate package that I can download and install.
We are hesitant to install Perl from source because the company
standard is to use depot files for all software installs on hpux.

Has anyone out there installed GDBM_File.pm separately from
the core Perl package? If so, how did you go about doing this?

Thank you.

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John Evans