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It didn't at the time (10/2003). The changes file says this was fixed in 0.22 (01/2004), which I think I noticed a month or two after that. It has this interesting comment... 

AIX also massages some very naughty bits (MakeMaker macro variables) 
in $Config{lddlflags} that should never have been put there, but 
alas, they're there, so we find & resolve them.

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My email at the time says these were getting passed to the linker without being interpolated (during a 'make test' of Module::Build). So either it's an AIX/perl issue or Module::Build was making assumptions it shouldn't have.

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