The following reply was made to PR pkg/31091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: jlam@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	carl@rollcage2.bl.echidna.id.au
Subject: Re: pkg/31091 (perl 5.8.7 won't build with threads on 1.6.2)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:56:51 +1100

 jlam@netbsd.org wrote:
 > Synopsis: perl 5.8.7 won't build with threads on 1.6.2
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: jlam@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:13:34 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > This is a problem with the perl Configure script.  It detects too late
 > the correct flags to link against shared libraries, and so does not
 > correctly link against libraries outside of system directories.  This
 > is probably fixed by setting ldflags correctly in the hints files, but
 > this will take some investigation to do so correctly.
 
 I don't have any 1.6.2 systems anymore to test this on - have moved
 everything to 2.1 or 3.0