Well, the sparc64 gcc only generates v9 code, so -mcpu=v8 won't work
   at all.  If it's configured correctly to generate 32-bit binaries (and
   not all toolchains can do that) then -32 may have some effect.  But
   what you have basically discovered is that perl is buggy.  Have you tried
   the pkgsrc version of perl?  It should be fixed to build on -current.


actually, the sparc64-netbsd gcc configuration in our tree has been
capable of emitting v8 binaries for some months now.  i've actually
used it to build an entire /emul/netbsd32 with it, including building
32 bit binaries.  sparc64-netbsd-gcc -32 looks in
/emul/netbsd32/usr/lib, etc., for libraries & startup files, etc.


.mrg.