Re: [gentoo-user] Error in Emerge

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 28 January 2010 08:17:48 Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote:
> I get the following error from emerge. The same happens when I try to
>  emerge -uDN world. I can't update anything.
>
>
>
> * Messages for package dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8:
>
>  * ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 failed:
>  *   Unable to configure
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  *     ebuild.sh, line   54:  Called src_compile
>  *   environment, line 2796:  Called src_configure
>  *   environment, line 2879:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *       sh Configure -des -Darchname="${myarch}" -Dcccdlflags='-fPIC'
> -Dccdlflags='-rdynamic' -Dcc="$(tc-getCC)" -Dprefix='/usr'
> -Dvendorprefix='/usr' -Dsiteprefix='/usr' -Dlocincpth=' '
> -Doptimize="${CFLAGS}" -Duselargefiles -Dd_semctl_semun
>  -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
>  -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3
> -Dinstallman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dinstallman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3
> -Dman1ext='1' -Dman3ext='3pm' -Dinc_version_list="$inclist"
>  -Dcf_by='Gentoo' -Ud_csh -Dusenm "${myconf[@]}" || die "Unable to
>  configure"
>  *
>  * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
> =dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8',
>  * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
> =dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8'.
>  * The complete build log is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8/temp/build.log'.
>  * The ebuild environment file is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8/temp/environment'.
>  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8/work/perl-5.8.8'

Did you read the above bit?

it tells you what information is required to assist with a resolution.

The topmost error is before the beginning of what you posted
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