perl Makefile.PL for XMLTV causes Bus Error

[Chris]

Gday all,

I am new to the list - apols if I'm misisng something obvious.

I am getting a Bus Error when trying

    perl Makefile.PL

as the first step for installing XMLTV (after sucessfully installing the
pre-reqs).

Macports 1.70, Leopard 10.5.6 (Intel) with Security Update 2009-001!

After many attempts I've tried a clean Leopard install (on my Intel mac)
- the default version of xcode (that came with leopard) as well as
xcode3.12.  I've tried ports Perl 5.8(9) and 5.10 as well as source for
xmltv-0.5.49   xmltv-0.5.50   xmltv-0.5.51   xmltv-0.5.52
xmltv-0.5.53   xmltv-0.5.54   xmltv-0.5.55 from sourceforge

I was able to succesfully compile and install xmltv_prereq-8 and I can
compile xmltv with the native vendor/apple shipped Perl.

Has anyone got any ideas ?

I tried searching for hints on how to debug a bus error but there is not
much I can find

I started down this path (macports/perl/xmltv) as I got badly bitten by
Security Update 2009-001 breaking Apple shipped  Perl

    See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9022650#9022650

thanks in advance,
Chris