This is a build failure report for perl from Alan.Burlison@[...].com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0.

Perl built with -Dusemorebits

base/cond............ok
base/if..............ok
base/lex.............FAILED at test 7
Failed a basic test--cannot continue.
*** Error code 29
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test'

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Flags:
    category=install
    severity=none
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Site configuration information for perl v5.7.0:

Configured by alanbur at Thu Aug 31 18:37:09 BST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 7 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-64int-ld
    uname='sunos mower 5.8 generic_108528-02 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-60 '
    config_args='-dsOE -Dprefix=/home1/software/perl/bldtest -Dinstallprefix=/home1/software
/perl/bldtest -Dsiteprefix=/home1/software/perl/bldtest -Doptimize=-g -Duseshrplib -Uusemyma
lloc -Dusedevel -Ubincompat5005 -Dusemorebits -Accflags=-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=, gccosandvers=
    cppflags='-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -
D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=16, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=
8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro/WS6/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro/lib '
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/SUNWspro/WS6/lib /opt/SUNWspro/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec -lsunmath
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -R /home1/software/perl/bldt
est/lib/5.7.0/sun4-solaris-64int-ld/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro/WS6/lib -L/opt/SUNWsp
ro/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    DEVEL6947

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@INC for perl v5.7.0:
    /home1/software/perl/build/perl/lib
    /home1/software/perl/bldtest/lib/5.7.0/sun4-solaris-64int-ld
    /home1/software/perl/bldtest/lib/5.7.0
    /home1/software/perl/bldtest/lib/site_perl/5.7.0/sun4-solaris-64int-ld
    /home1/software/perl/bldtest/lib/site_perl/5.7.0
    /home1/software/perl/bldtest/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.7.0:
    HOME=/homedir/rootal
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home1/software/perl/build/perl
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/homedir/rootal/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/c
cs/bin:/opt/gcc/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/SUNWisdn/bin:/opt/SUNWisdn/to
ols:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh

Additional info: Compiler version.