+I have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server.
+I can't say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had been released
+for BeOS BONE, I suspect, there is a good chance, that it still compiles on
+a BONE system. The only change I've made, that affects BONE systems is the
+recognition of whether it is a BONE system or not in C<hints/beos.sh>. Now
+network socket support should remain enabled on BONE systems. This might
+as well break the build, though.