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