p5-Mail-SpamAssassin PERL_LEVEL problem

[Culley Harrelson]

I am using FreeBSD 4.10, trying to upgrade p5-Mail-SpamAssassin.  I am
triggering this line in the make file:

.if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
IGNORE= needs perl 5.6.1 or higher, install lang/perl5.8 and try again
.endif

problem is that I *have* installed lang/perl5.8 and this is still
getting triggered.  Where is PERL_LEVEL set?  I have tried tweaking my
path to get /use/bin/perl out of the equation but this has not been
effective.  Any clues for me?

culley