I am immediately accepting and applying your correction to config/auto/gdbm.pm, which was included in the patch. You managed to find mistakes made by both myself and the other chief Cage Cleaner!
[li11-226:parrot] 571 $ svn diff config/auto/gdbm.pm Index: config/auto/gdbm.pm =================================================================== --- config/auto/gdbm.pm (revision 22667) +++ config/auto/gdbm.pm (working copy) @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ my $self = shift; my %data; $data{description} = q{Determining if your platform supports gdbm}; - $data{args} = [ qw( verbose without-gmp ) ]; + $data{args} = [ qw( verbose without-gdbm ) ]; $data{result} = q{}; return \%data; } @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ my ( $verbose, $without ) = $conf->options->get( qw| verbose - without-gmp + without-gdbm | );