Perl5.8 Won't Build

[Anton Berezin]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:30:48AM -0500, William Bentley wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
>     Trying to build Perl5.8 and keep getting error messages. This is a 
> new installation under 7.1Release. Already did a make clean and 
> portsnap. Any ideas appreciated. Here is the ouput.
> 
> .....snip.......

^^^^ here is the interesting part.

> Extracting Policy.sh (with variable substitutions)
> Extracting utils/Makefile (with variable substitutions)
> Extracting writemain (with variable substitutions)
> Extracting x2p/cflags (with variable substitutions)
> Extracting x2p/Makefile (with variable substitutions)
> Configure done.
> 
> If you compile perl5 on a different machine or from a different object
> directory, copy the Policy.sh file from this object directory to the
> new one before you run Configure -- this will help you with most of
> the policy defaults.
> 
> ===>  Building for perl-5.8.9
> make: cannot open makefile.
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.

Could you attach a complete output of the configure stage?

\Anton.
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