I am using NetBSD5.1.
we working our legacy SW package, which runs on PPC and MIPS platform. We are trying to port complete SW package on newer ARM7 targets.
Even though it will be lots slower, I would first try to do a native compilation of Perl 5.8.8 on the target machine. Compiling and testing Perl 5.22.0 on an ARMv7 (MediaTek) takes around 40 minutes and that would eliminate the "usual" architecture mix problems you get by trying out cross-compilation.