make release failure: perl:No such file or directory

[Scott R. Sewall]

I'm having trouble running make release.  The build fails with the 
following message:

> perl @/kern/makeops.pl -c @/pci/agp_if.m
> perl:No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/agp.
> *** Error code 1

The failire occurs in stage 4: make dependencies

When I looked for perl in the chroot environment tree, I did not find a 
perl executable.

I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE cvsup'd last Sunday 9/14.

Any ideas?

-- Scott