problems autobuilding perl-5.004

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

I've built a shell script that runs from a list, extracts source from the
archives, builds the source, and installs the binary packages into a
target CD archives.

I have been able to build several packages with this script, but when I
got to perl-5.004 the build dies in the configure stage with the following
error message:

Say 'sh Configure' not 'sh <Configure'
make: *** [config.stamp] Error 1

However, dpkg-buildpackage fails to return the error and the script
continues along its merry way, failing to find packages to install, etc...

If I cd to the proper directory, and execute dpkg-buildpackage from the
bash prompt, everything builds ok. If I execute the same command line in
my shell script, I get the above error message.

I have tried various shell environments with no change (bash, ash, and sh)
to the results.

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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