For what it's worth, I downloaded perl-5.8.8 from CPAN and built it
successfully without any modification of the source (only failed 1
test).  Unfortunately, figuring out the offending patch (or whatever
it is) is beyond the scope of my abilities (thusfar, anyway).  :(

On 10/30/06, snj@netbsd.org <snj@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Synopsis: lang/perl5 from pkgsrc-current does not build on 4.99.3 (amd64)
> 200610250000Z
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> Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->jlam
> Responsible-Changed-By: snj@netbsd.org
> Responsible-Changed-When: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:38:36 +0000
> Responsible-Changed-Why:
> Over to maintainer.
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