Why does it seem like libperl.a is in the wrong place?

I'm running testing.

ii perl 5.8.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
ii perl-base 5.8.0-18 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
ii perl-doc 5.8.0-17 Perl documentation.
ii perl-modules 5.8.0-18 Core Perl modules.
ii libperl-dev 5.8.0-18 Perl library: development files.
ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-8.2 Shared Perl library.
ii libperl5.8 5.8.0-18 Shared Perl library.

Trying to build a perl binary linked with a module (for debugging
reasons):

$ make perl
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/libperl.a', needed by `perl'. Stop.

$ dpkg -S libperl.a
libperl-dev: /usr/lib/libperl.a





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Bill Moseley
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