Re: perl5 broken on ubuntu?

[Tom Spindler <dogcow%babymeat.com@localhost>]

> I'm having trouble installing pkglint which requires perl5, because perl
> has build errors (actually, *link* errors).

From the PR:

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===> Building for perl-5.12.2nb2
./miniperl -Ilib make_ext.pl cpan/Archive-Extract/pm_to_blib 
MAKE=/private/home/dennis/pkg/bin/bmake LIBPERL_A=libperl.a
        Making Archive::Extract (all)

That's pretty strongly indicative of a prior compilation; have you tried
`cd ../../lang/perl5; make clean`?