> BTW I noticed that on NetBSD and SunOS, perl's Configure does not do a
   > good job of working out which libc.so is in use.  On both systems it
   > offered to use the oldest one available (from 0.9 on zen!)
   
   This is a generic bug in many of the Configure scripts floating around -
   it bites elm too. They look at several places for lib*.so.* files, sort
   them *alphabeticaly* and take the last. This gives you libc.so.9.0
   if you happen to have libc.so.9.0, libc.so.10.0, libc.so.11.0, libc.so.12.0
   and libc.so.12.2.
   
   I just deleted libc.so.9.0 and Configure was happy again.

i'll email the metaconf maintainers and ask them to fix this.  :-)

.mrg.