Well, there's been a recent thread on P5P about how -ldb needs to be removed from one of Perl's build Configure scripts so that it can be dynloaded rather than statically loaded. I don't understand the entire problem, but perhaps you could go back through the perl5-porters archive, or look into Configure to wherever -ldb appears and see if it's in the wrong place. {grin}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker