[gentoo-user] Re: emerge dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 failed

[Philipp Kraus]

On 2011-03-15 15:50:44 +0100, walt said:

> On 03/15/2011 03:14 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've try to emerge my world target new, but the dev-lang/perl-5.12.3
>> failes. I've found on the gentoo pages the hint to sync the portage
>> tree again, but that does not solve the problem.
>>
>> The messages during emerge are:
>>
>> IO.xs: In function 'XS_IO__File_new_tmpfile':
>> IO.xs:229: warning: value computed is not used
>> IO.xs: In function 'XS_IO__Poll__poll':
>> IO.xs:249: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type
>> 'struct pollfd'
>> IO.xs:253: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>> IO.xs:253: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>> IO.xs:255: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>> IO.xs:255: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>> IO.xs:257: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>> IO.xs:257: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>> IO.xs:259: warning: implicit declaration of function 'poll'
>> IO.xs:261: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>> IO.xs:261: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>> IO.xs:262: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>> IO.xs:262: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>> make[1]: *** [IO.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.12.3/work/perl-5.12.3/dist/IO'
>> Unsuccessful make(dist/IO): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 449.
>> make: *** [lib/auto/IO/IO.so] Error 25
>>
>> I've try to mask the 5.12.3 package to a previous version, but the same
>> problemes are shown. Now I've have a "hanging" portage. Perl is needed
>> for my eg. LDAP... Does anyone have any idea to solve the error?
>
> You might try running perl-cleaner --modules (sys-apps/perl-cleaner) in
> case your existing perl environment is broken.

perl-cleaner shows:
NO PERL INSTALLED! (at least not in your path)

Phil