Bug 387091 – sys-apps/coreutils-8.14 fails to install when perl isn't installed

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description nzqr 2011-10-14 04:36:05 UTC]

sys-apps/coreutils fails install phase if dev-lang/perl isn't installed.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 nzqr 2011-10-14 04:36:33 UTC]

Created attachment 289777 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 nzqr 2011-10-14 04:39:24 UTC]

Created attachment 289779 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 Diego Augusto Molina 2011-10-16 15:48:45 UTC]

Are you using any other unstable system ebuild?

[Comment 4 nzqr 2011-10-17 06:07:35 UTC]

>Are you using any other unstable system ebuild?

No, everything is from plain gentoo portage tree. I just have nothing that pulls perl in deps, so it's not installed.

[Comment 5 nzqr 2011-10-17 06:20:17 UTC]

And yes, all system packages are from "~amd64" if I misunderstood Your question. emerge --info output is in attachments.

[Comment 6 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2011-10-18 16:08:45 UTC]

Specifically, the issue here seems to be that the build system uses perl to generate some(all?) of the man-pages.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2011-10-18 19:41:42 UTC]

coreutils is never going to depend on perl

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2011-10-18 22:47:38 UTC]

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Extend man page hack to missing perl
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.14.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2