spamassassin and Perl 5.8 port broken

[Bram Moolenaar]

I'm running FreeBSD 4.9:

FreeBSD masaka.moolenaar.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #2: Sat Oct 23 15:54:26 CEST 2004     mool at masaka.moolenaar.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MASAKA  i386

Trying to install the mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port I get an error
message that perl 5.6.1 or higher should be installed:

	Needs perl 5.6.1 or higher, install lang/perl5.8 and try again

But I do have perl 5.6.1!

Removing the check from the Makefile it continues but then later fails
with something missing...

OK, let's install Perl 5.8 then.  But that fails as well, halfway doing
"make install".  Now /usr/local/bin/perl is no longer functioning!!!
Aaaaargggh!  (sorry, this is very frustrating)

Fortunately reinstalling Perl 5.6.1 worked.  Phew.

Please fix this asap.  Both perl and spamassassin are needed!

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