gcc changed an error message since that source was last ... er... worked upon. There's actually a shellscript work around for this: 
--- perl-5.8.0/makedepend.SH    2002-07-09 10:06:42.000000000 -0400
+++ perl-5.8.0.jet/makedepend.SH    2009-02-08 09:55:51.000000000 -050
+0
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     *.y) filebase=`basename $file .y` ;;
     esac
     case "$file" in
-    */*) finc="-I`echo $file | sed 's#/[^/]*$##`" ;;
+    */*) finc="-I`echo $file | sed 's#/[^/]*$##'`" ;;
     *)   finc= ;;
     esac
     $echo "Finding dependencies for $filebase$_o."
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@
             -e '/^#.*<builtin>/d' \
             -e '/^#.*<built-in>/d' \
             -e '/^#.*<command line>/d' \
+            -e '/^#.*<command-line>/d' \
        -e '/^#.*"-"/d' \
        -e '/: file path prefix .* never used$/d' \
        -e 's#\.[0-9][0-9]*\.c#'"$file.c#" \

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My patch is actually for perl 5.8, but something really similar should work on 5.6

-Paul

In reply to Re: Is 5.6.1 just too old to be built? by jettero
in thread Is 5.6.1 just too old to be built? by Plankton

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