Perl5.8 Won't Build

[Mel]

On Friday 30 January 2009 07:04:51 William Bentley wrote:
> Hey All,
>
>     Trying to build Perl5.8 and keep getting error messages about the
> makefile. This is a new installation under AMD64 7.1Release inside of a
> jail. Already did a make clean and portsnap. I already wrote to the lang
> mailing list as well to no avail as of yet. Any ideas appreciated. Here
> is the output.

<snip make configure>

> ===>  Building for perl-5.8.9
> make: cannot open makefile.
> *** Error code 2

Please show output of:
make -C /usr/ports/lang/perl-5.8 -n do-build

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.