Since Perl 5.8 is long out of support, as is Solaris 5, and seeing how recent Perls work fine on Solaris 10 & 11, I'm marking this as rejected. OP, if you are still having issues compiling newer versions of Perl, please open a new ticket. --hugmeir --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=19690