The following reply was made to PR pkg/30308; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: joerg@leaf.dragonflybsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30308: conflicting local errno in lang/perl5.8
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 07:43:14 +0000

 On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:51:00PM +0000, joerg@leaf.dragonflybsd.org wrote:
 > 
 > >Description:
 > The Perl 5.8 source defines errno locally, which conflicts with the definition in errno.h.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > build in DragonFly HEAD
 > >Fix:
 > Add the following patch:
 > 
 > --- ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c.orig      2003-08-27 12:30:22.000000000 +0200
 > +++ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c   2005-05-03 10:18:19.000000000 +0200
 > @@ -36,9 +36,11 @@
 >   */
 >  #ifndef WIN32
 >  #ifndef sun
 > +#ifndef __STDC__
 >  extern int errno;
 >  #endif
 >  #endif
 > +#endif
 
 I took a closer look at this.  I think the best thing to do in this
 case is to use the same test that's in perl.h, which does:
 
 	#include <errno.h>
 	#ifndef errno
 	extern int errno;
 	#endif
 
 While this may not be necessarily correct either, at least it would
 consistent within the Perl sources, and we can wait for something
 better to appear in future Perl versions.  The Configure script implies
 that the Perl maintainers are aware of this problem, and will fix it
 in the future.
 
 From looking at the CVS logs for src/sys/sys/errno.h for DragonFly,
 it appears that the "errno" is always defined if <errno.h> is included,
 so this test will also work on DragonFly (actually, I notice that your
 commit of revision 1.6 of that file shows awareness of this issue).
 
 	Cheers,
 
 	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>