so, apparently, you have two Perl installations, which you should take care to not mix up. (BTW, I said perl -V (capital V) - this would've shown the compiler and other settings that the particular version of Perl has been built with. The same compiler should be used to build extensions...).

Just to recap (for me, I'm slowly beginning to get confused :), presuming you want to install the GD binding for the Perl 5.8.7 (in your home(?)), are you still getting the same error cannot find include file: <gd.h>, if you run /home/sadm/.perl/bin/perl Makefile.PL && make as your regular user, and if so, is the header file gd.h in fact accessible under the include path that is specified on the cc command line (i.e. -I/usr/local/include)?

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