Bugzilla Bug 42665

When I try to "emerge libperl" version 5.8.2, it quits with an error message.
The message is as follows

I am guessing that I am supposed to have something else installed, but libperl is not pulling it in as a dependency.  I am not sure what it is that I am supposed to install, though

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "emerge libperl"
2. wait for error message

Actual Results:  
Configure: line 3015: /bin/mips: No such file or directory
Configure: line 1: hostinfo: command not found
Configure: line 1: /sbin/version: No such file or directory
Configure: line 1: /usr/bin/what: No such file or directory
Which of these apply, if any? [Policy uwin]  
Configure: line 3352: Policy.sh: No such file or directory

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 203, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)


Expected Results:  
should have finished emerging libperl

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.20-ck4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-ck4 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/co
nfig /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qm
ail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ 
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb 
gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ 
libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib 
perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk 
tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Is this an update from an existing installed version or is happening while
installing for the first time? There's very rarely a need to email libperl
yourself - it's almost always pulled in as a dep during 'emerge system' - was
there some other issue here?

Any additional info leading up to this would be helpful as this seems rather
odd.

That should read "emerge libperl yourself" not "email libperl yourself" -
sorry.

this is an update of libperl
an "emerge world" is updating libperl (i regularly do an "emerge sync" followed by an "emerge world" to keep my system up to date with the latest stable packages)
It looks like there is a new version of perl, which has libperl as a dependency.
The reason I ran it by itself, was just to try to isolate the problem.
Right now, and "emerge -p world" lists the following:

> emerge -p world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] app-editors/emacs-21.3-r2 [21.3-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.14-r2 [4.14-r1] 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r7  
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 [3.2.3-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r2 [0.59r-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r3 [1.4.3-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5 [4.3.0-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 [0.61-r4] 
[ebuild     U ] net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2 [5.4.0-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.13 [1.8.6.10-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.2 [1.1.1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 [3.11] 
[ebuild     U ] net-www/lynx-2.8.4.1d-r1 [2.8.4.1c] 
[ebuild     U ] net-nds/openldap-2.1.26 [2.0.27-r5] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 [5.8.0] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1 [5.8.0-r12] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-themes/xmms-themes-0.0.3 [0.0.2] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.0-r1 [3.2.3] 

This is a slow machine which used to run X and KDE, but doesn't any more (and I never bothered to clean those packages out), so I was going through the "world" updates and updating the most necessary stuff for security sake.  I figured the perl update was probably good, since I make heavy use of perl packages, especially SpamAssassin.

don't know if this helps, but if I go into
/var/tmp/portage/libperl-5.8.2/work/perl-5.8.2/
and run ./configure.gnu, it seems to work OK, but I either can't, or don't know
how to continue an emerge from there, and the dependencies seem to be stacking
up more and more as I leave this longer...
Help!

While not an orthodox solution, until we figure out a better way, try this:
ln -s bash /bin/ksh

The noksh patch should solve this in cvs.