I've come across this
exact same problem on the Solaris platform (Solaris 2.8, perl 5.005.03, gcc 2.95.2) quite regularly when compiling modules with C elements. The cause of this which I was able to determine was the use of an updated
ExtUtils::MakeMaker package being employed from my own module install tree when running
perl Makefile.PL - When I removed my module install tree from
@INC, more specifically
PERL5LIB, the make and install went perfectly.
perl -le 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000100000001011010"))'