On 11 Jan 2022 at 08:37p, Alan Ianson pondered and said...
 
 AI> Do you have the perl-dev package installed?

I don't know, but I last version I built last time worked, so that's why I am stumped now.

 AI> If you are running debian or a derivative you can run "apt-get build-dep
 AI> binkd" and that may bring in the required dependecies for you.

thanks, did that, re ran the build and tried again sadly no joy.

avon@orac:/hub/binkd$ ./binkd -C binkd.cfg
  20:27 [15273] binkd.cfg: line 329: error in configuration files
? 20:27 [15273] perl-hooks: unknown keyword
! 20:27 [15273] error in configuration, aborting
avon@orac:/hub/binkd$ ./binkd -v
Binkd 1.1a-113 (Jan 12 2022 10:29:21/Linux)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)