20:24 tobez 

Upgrade to 5.8.8.

Also:
Do not strip when built with -DWITH_DEBUGGING. [1]
Do not build non-threaded perl with -pthread. [2]
Add rebuild-xs target which should be used when
perl-after-upgrade does not do its job adequately. [3]
Fix perl-after-upgrade to handle threaded perl. [4]

Submitted by:   John Narron <jnarron@cdsinet.net> [2],
                Sergey Prikhodko <sergey@network-asp.biz> [4],
                parv@pair.com [1],
                pavel@ctk.ru [2],
                skv [3],
                vasilis <vasilis@karkampounas.gr> [2]
PR:     83223 [4], 83767 [2], 84255 [2], 89443 [1], 90832 [2]

21:55 tobez 

Under certain conditions (perl Makefile.PL used directly or by proxy,
without PERL_CONFIGURE trickery), the interaction of 5.8.1's MakeMaker
and BSDPAN can lead to parts of perl-using ports to be installed to
/lib, which is bad.  Fix that.

Reported by:    Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>