Here's where I apologize for my lack of knowledge

And here's where I ask, when you say 'build script' what do you mean? Isn't the ./Configure and make that I;m doing to build perl a script. Or do just want a log of the build?

NOTE: Went ahead and added the ./Configure && other commands to a shell script and am running it now as build.sh >&1 | tee log

Also, to clarify, make fails before finishing with the error I posted earlier. I never get to the point where I can run make install