The following reply was made to PR pkg/36397; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36397 (textproc/p5-XML-Xerces fails to build on 3.1/macppc)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:57:42 -0400

 >Same problem as PR 33403, it was fixed in perl-5.8.8nb2.
 >This is why i386 succeed but macppc not.
 >i386 uses 5.8.8nb3, macppc uses 5.8.8nb1.
 >Please update perl on macppc and confirm.
 
 Confirming upgrading to 5.8.8nb4 fixed the problem.  I didn't
 see that PR before, sorry about the dupe.
 
 Dave