Problems with Perl

It appears that something is messed up with regard to Perl
support on my system. Two things are happening, which may
or may not be related.

1) There is a complaint during make that
*****
* Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.
* Skipped.
*****
I'm running a pretty vanilla RedHat 6.1 setup. What should
I do about that?

2) Because _something_ was made for Perl, the 'make install'
has to be root. Okay. But this is leaving some stuff behind
that is owned by root. When I attempt a subsequent
'make clean; make' I get into permissions trouble, and have
to delete these things manually.

These events are illustrated in an script(1) capture file,
which I have edited down to a version I have attached here.

++ kevin

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