perl-5.8.1 and Tk804.025 on IRIX 6.5.20m

1) IRIX has no ranlib, it's not required.  When building builtin zlib/png
   support make will fail trying to invoke ranlib.  I (Steve Lidie) did:

       alias ranlib=true


Perl5.004/Tk402.* on IRIX 6.2

Craig reports that there is a -lnsl in /usr/lib which MakeMaker finds
but which linker does not.

Craig M Votava <craig@lucent.com> writes:
>
>I built it without the -lnsl with this command:
>
>perl Makefile.PL LIBS="-L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib32 -lX11 -lpt -lsocket -lm"
>
>
>I think both of this can be done in the perl5.004 irix configuration scripts
>so that Tk402.000 picks them up... right?
>

Really needs a hints file - but I (Nick) can't remember how to do one...