in reply to Attempts at building Perl 5.8.7 on Solaris 10 failing

Not to directly address your problem, but FYI 5.8.8 was just released yesterday. If you're not going with 5.8.7 for any particular reason you might want to see if 5.8.8 doesn't play nicer.

ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

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