I considered this. I had the same problem when I was using the bundled perl 5.005.03 from the Sun distribution. At that time I was using Sun's cc and recieved the same error.

Consequently, I downloaded the source for 5.005.03 and compiled that with GCC, then did the modules with GCC. Same problem.

I'm going to attempt to mess with the MakeMaker Module as described below to see if that helps.

Cheers

--Fred