$ perl "-V:.*?suid.*?"
d_dosuid='undef';
d_setresuid='undef';
d_suidsafe='undef';
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Monks,

You were absolutely right - it is the "setuid-emu" flag to the configure script that is causing the headaches. I rebuilt a distro with "Do you want to do setuid/setgid emulation? y" and now the script works.

However, when I try to build it with the following configure command:

./Configure -Dprefix=/home/csit/usr/perl -Dsetuid-emu=y -des
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as per Configure.pm, I get the following:

./optdef.sh: line 3: setuid-emu=y: command not found
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Am I doing something wrong? Can someone point out the correct CLI parameter that would enable me to install it silently?

Once again, thank you for your responses.

However, when I try to build it with the following configure co....

Why setuid-emu, where do you find setuid-emu? I don't see setuid-emu http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=suid, but I do see http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=emu SUID emulation has been removed for 5.12