is my perl broken?

[Bill McCormick]

I'm trying to install the GD perl lib on FC3.

It fails the make test (see output below.)

Some of the README's in the install dir lead me to beleive that my I 
need to install perl from source.

Can someone confirm this for me?

Are there any issues with compiling perl from src on FC3?

Thanks

$make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" 
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/GD..........Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: 
libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at t/GD.t line 13
Compilation failed in require at t/GD.t line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/GD.t line 13.
t/GD..........dubious                                                        

        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-10
        Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay
t/Polyline....Can't load 
'/opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: 
libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at /opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45
Compilation failed in require at 
/opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45.
Compilation failed in require at t/Polyline.t line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Polyline.t line 10.
t/Polyline....dubious                                                        

        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED test 1
        Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/GD.t        255 65280    10   19 190.00%  1-10
t/Polyline.t  255 65280     1    2 200.00%  1
Failed 2/2 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 11/11 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255