Yes, indeed in /usr/lib there is:
libperl.a libperl.so libperl.so.3 libperl_p.a
Which is the "system" perl version.
I don't know that FreeBSD-5.x is stable enough to upgrade to at this point - but I see now why they took perl out of the distribution.
So, there must be a way to circumvent this issue - perhaps by some makepl_* flags or?
I don't know whether FreeBSD has the same loader env vars, but on linux I can tell the executable which library to preload and from where using LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, e.g. when I build a new blead perl I have to use
LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/libperl.so LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` make test
otherwise it'll use the preinstalled version.
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