From D.Haywood@btinternet.com

This is a bug report for perl from D.Haywood@​btinternet.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.

Perl built with no errors and "make test" ran with no failures.

Example program​:

#!/bin/perl

use Socket;

$packed_ip=inet_aton("nmsw01");
printf "IP addr​: %s\n",inet_ntoa($packed_ip) if defined ($packed_ip);

/NMSD01> perl demo.pl
ld.so.1​: perl​: fatal​: relocation error​: file /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/Socket/Socket.so​: symbol __inet_ntoa​: referenced symbol not found
Killed

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503​:

Configured by dhay001 at Thu Sep 2 18​:34​:49 BST 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
  uname='sunos nmsw01 5.6 generic_105181-09 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 '
  hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.8.1
  cppflags='-I/opt/gnu/include'
  ccflags ='-I/opt/gnu/include'
  stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/opt/gnu/lib'
  libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/gnu/lib
  libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
  libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/opt/gnu/lib'

Locally applied patches​:
 

@​INC for perl 5.00503​:
  /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
  /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/5.00503
  /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
  /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
  .

Environment for perl 5.00503​:
  HOME=/
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/sbin​:/usr/sbin​:/opt/gnu/sbin​:/opt/local/sbin​:/opt/gnu/bin​:/usr/bin​:/usr/dt/bin​:/usr/openwin/bin​:/opt/local/bin​:/usr/contrib/bin
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/sbin/sh