Help with a Perl 5.8.4 Make Error Message

[pptran]

Hi,

I am pretty new to building and installing Perl. Can someone help
explain the severity of the following Perl 5.8.4 build error message?

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Making threads::shared (dynamic)
make[1]: Entering directory
`/nfs/site/disks/pdx_vt_3/vt_dev_hsd/work/users/pptran/perl-5.8.4/ext/threads/shared'
Makefile out-of-date with respect to ../../../lib/Config.pm
.../../../config.h
Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1 || /bin/sh -c true
.../../../miniperl "-I../../../lib" "-I../../../lib" Makefile.PL
"INSTALLDIRS=pe rl" "PERL_CORE= 1" "LIBPERL_A=libp erl.so"
Writing Makefile for threads::shared
==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command. <==
false
make[1]: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/nfs/site/disks/pdx_vt_3/vt_dev_hsd/work/users/pptran/perl-5.8.4/ext/threads/shared'
make config failed, continuing anyway...
make[1]: Entering directory
`/nfs/site/disks/pdx_vt_3/vt_dev_hsd/work/users/pptran/perl-5.8.4/ext/threads/shared'
Skip ../../../lib/threads/shared.pm (unchanged)
.../../../miniperl "-I../../../lib" "-I../../../lib"
.../../../lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap ../../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap
-typemap typemap shared.xs > shared.xsc && mv shared.xsc shared.c
cc -c -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOU RCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_B ITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -DVERSION=\"0.92 \"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0 .92\" -fpic "-I../../.." shared.c
Running Mkbootstrap for threads::shared ()
chmod 644 shared.bs
rm -f ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib shared.o -o
.../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
chmod 755 ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
cp shared.bs ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs
chmod 644 ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/nfs/site/disks/pdx_vt_3/vt_dev_hsd/work/users/pptran/perl-5.8.4/ext/threads/shared'
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Thanks in advance!
Phuong P Tran