Build 17882 doesn't pass tests

I successfully built Perl 5.8.0 17882 (with the configure.com patch) on
OpenVMS VAX V7.2 with Compaq C 6.4-005.  However, when I tried to run the
test suite, I received:

t/base/cond..........................ok
t/base/if............................ok
t/base/lex...........................ok
t/base/num...........................FAILED at test 47
Failed a basic test--cannot continue.

Running num.t individually produces:

$ @[.vms]test .exe "" "-v" [.base]num.t
1..50
ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
ok 9
ok 10
ok 11
ok 12
ok 13
ok 14
ok 15
ok 16
ok 17
ok 18
ok 19
ok 20
ok 21
ok 22
ok 23
ok 24
ok 25
ok 26
ok 27
ok 28
ok 29
ok 30
ok 31
ok 32
ok 33
ok 34
ok 35
ok 36
ok 37
ok 38
ok 39
ok 40
ok 41
ok 42
ok 43
ok 44
ok 45
ok 46
not ok 47
t/BASE/NUM....FAILED at test 47
Failed 1 test script out of 1, 0.00% okay.
### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of
### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce.
### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test".
u=10.21  s=0  cu=0  cs=0  scripts=1  tests=50

This used to work.  What should I look for?

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• Build 17882 doesn't pass tests by Brian Tillman
• Re: Build 17882 doesn't pass tests by Craig A. Berry