$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.2 2010/09/19 11:07:12 wiz Exp $ --- Makefile.PL.orig 2010-09-15 21:49:46.000000000 +0000 +++ Makefile.PL @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ if (not $expat_libpath and $] >= 5.00600 unless ($expat_libpath) { # Test for existence of libexpat my $found = 0; - foreach (split(/\s+/, $Config{libpth})) { + # HF: look in the perl base dir too, as libpth may not be installed: + foreach ( $Config{prefix} . "/lib" , split(/\s+/, $Config{libpth})) { if (-f "$_/libexpat." . $Config{so}) { $expat_libpath=$_; $found = 1;