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

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@netbsd.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, joerg@leaf.dragonflybsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30308: conflicting local errno in lang/perl5.8
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:06:10 +0200

 On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:43:14AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
 > 	#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.
 
 That's the same fix as I suggested alternatively to Perl. It's fine
 with me.
 
 Joerg