freebsd stable - Sep 2003 - make release failure: perl:No such file or directory

I'm having trouble running make release.  The build fails with the 
following message:
> perl @/kern/makeops.pl -c @/pci/agp_if.m
> perl:No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/agp.
> *** Error code 1
The failire occurs in stage 4: make dependencies

When I looked for perl in the chroot environment tree, I did not find a 
perl executable.

I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE cvsup'd last Sunday 9/14.

Any ideas?

-- Scott

On 20 Sep, Scott R. Sewall wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble running make release.  The build fails with the 
> following message:
> 
>> perl @/kern/makeops.pl -c @/pci/agp_if.m
>> perl:No such file or directory
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/agp.
>> *** Error code 1
> 
> The failire occurs in stage 4: make dependencies
> 
> When I looked for perl in the chroot environment tree, I did not find a 
> perl executable.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE cvsup'd last Sunday 9/14.
> 
> Any ideas?
Would you happen to have NOPERL set?.  There are certain things in the
build process that require perl.  They will work if you have NOPERL set
to skip the system perl build as long as you have perl installed as a
port, but this won't work when 'make release' chroots.