I am using GNU's Make. I ran truss on "make" at the parent directory level. Am just adding the last section

    Making B (dynamic)
Inside B::Makefile.PL
before WriteMakefile call
wait()                          (sleeping...)
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I ran truss from within the B directory and here's the output. It's pretty big, so am adding some sections that i think are relevant. Please let me know if you need other sections and i will provide them. It looks like it is trying to find Util.pm file Then i find it is doing lstat calls on pretty much the entire filesystem. And some of the directories are NFS mounted, and goes to sleep on one such directory.

   3890  open64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/Scalar/
+Util.pm", O
_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
  3891  stat64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Scalar/Util.pmc", 0xF
+FBFF8D0) E
rr#2 ENOENT
  3892  open64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Scalar/Util.pm", O_RD
+ONLY) Err#
2 ENOENT
  3893  stat64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Scalar/Util.pmc", 0xFFBFF8D
+0) Err#2 E
NOENT
  3894  open64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Scalar/Util.pm", O_RDONLY) 
+Err#2 ENOE
NT
  3895  stat64("./Scalar/Util.pmc", 0xFFBFF8D0)         Err#2 ENOENT
  3896  open64("./Scalar/Util.pm", O_RDONLY)            Err#2 ENOENT
  3897  getcontext(0xFFBFF758)
  3898  setcontext(0xFFBFF758)
  3899  stat64(".", 0x0011AE90)                         = 0
  3900  open("./..", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE)     = 3
  3901  fstat64(3, 0xFFBFF9A0)                          = 0
  3902  fcntl(3, F_SETFD, 0x00000001)                   = 0
  3903  stat64("./..", 0x0011AE90)                      = 0
  3904  getdents64(3, 0x003BE488, 8192)                 = 1072
  3963  lstat64("./../../epoc", 0x0011AE90)             = 0
  3964  lstat64("./../../ext", 0x0011AE90)              = 0
  3965  close(3)                                        = 0
  3966  open("./../../..", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
  3967  fstat64(3, 0xFFBFF9A0)                          = 0
  3968  fcntl(3, F_SETFD, 0x00000001)                   = 0
  3969  stat64("./../../..", 0x0011AE90)                = 0
  3970  getdents64(3, 0x003BE488, 8192)                 = 1432
  3971  lstat64("./../../../.", 0x0011AE90)      
...
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I was under the impression that /local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/ was the path where perl would install these *.pm files for the actual perl that i build. Am i making myself clear?! Could someone explain what's happening here?!!

I am not sure what information you need , but here's some that i thought you would need. @INC for miniperl

./miniperl "-I./lib" -e 'print "@INC\n"'
./lib /local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /local/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /loca
+l/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
+.8.7 /local/lib/perl5/site_perl .
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Here's where i have Util.pm

/local/src/perl-5.8.7/ext/List/Util/lib/List/Util.pm
/local/src/perl-5.8.7/ext/List/Util/lib/Scalar/Util.pm
/local/src/perl-5.8.7/lib/CGI/Util.pm
/local/src/perl-5.8.7/lib/Hash/Util.pm
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Can someone help me? Do you need more info to help me out?
Thanks

Vani