libc6-dev for stable

[Mark Copper <mcopper@earthlink.net>]

Hi,

I am trying to build mod_perl from source on this machine:
 Linux 2.4.25-vs1.26 #2 Fri Feb 20 22:48:22 PST 2004 i686 unknown

My first problem was installing libc6-dev in stable.  This appears not
to work currently.  There is a related (broken) thread from April:
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg00691.html

My work-around was to install libc6 from testing and then libc6-dev
installed without complaint.  But when calling "perl Makefile.PL" on
mod_perl a la "Developer's Cookbook", I get this error:
   In file included from mod_rewrite.c:50:
   mod_rewrite.h:90: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
But "usr/include/db1/ndbm.h" belongs to libc6-dev.

Is libc6-dev my problem?  Has anyone worked around this?

Thanks,
Mark