> That is not entirely clear to me from the documentation. It doesn't
> say the path has to exist, but doesn't say it cannot either. --[[Joey]]
+
+I am experiencing the same problem "/etc/ikiwiki/custom: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo
+" on Debian squeeze with perl5.10.0. Upgrading to ikiwiki 3.10 fixes it. -- [Albert](http://www.docunext.com/)
+
+----
+
+Just a note, perl 5.10 isn't packaged as part of RHEL or thus CentOS nor EPEL,
+so it's not especially trivial to satisfy that requirement for ikiwiki on
+those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source.
+However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without
+(seemingly too much) complaint. How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what
+precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]]
+
+> I don't remember what was the specific problem with perl 5.8.8. All I can
+> find is some taint checking bugs, which are currently worked around by
+> taint checking being disabled. --[[Joey]]