On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:00:04PM +0000, Carl Brewer 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

too easy - extract 1.6.2 sets and chroot :)