gmake (perl-5.8.6) fails on z/OS

Hi,
I made the following modifications to utf8.c :
#ifdef EBCDIC
      uv = NATIVE_TO_UTF(uv);
#endif

I get the following output from gmake :
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`sh  cflags "optimize='-g'" utf8.o`  utf8.c
          CCCMD =  c89 -DPERL_CORE -c -DMAXSIG=38
-DOEMVS -D_OE_SOCKETS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
-D_ALL_SOURCE -DYYDYNAMIC -DDEBUGGING
-I/usr/local/include -W 0,float(ieee) -g
rm -f libperl.a
/bin/ar rcu libperl.a perl.o  gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o
pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o hv.o av.o
run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o
doop
.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o
xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o
locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o
c89 -Wl,EDIT=NO -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl \
    miniperlmain.o opmini.o libperl.a -lm -lc
./miniperl -w -Ilib -MExporter -e '<?>' || gmake
minitest
./miniperl -Ilib configpm configpm.tmp
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation
byte 0x54, with no preceding start byte) in printf at
configpm line 63.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation
byte 0x68, with no preceding st
art byte) in printf at configpm line 63.
....
...
"no" not allowed in expression at configpm.tmp line
20, near ""%"
configpm.tmp has too many errors.
Compilation failed in require at configpm line 673.
gmake: *** [lib/Config.pm] Error 113
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I have attached the configpm file. 

I tried redoing it with a clean build, but it still
fails. 

Why does configpm generate errors ? 

Thanks in advance,
Rajarshi.

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