Note: this happens on Alt/Prefix but should be applicable to general Gentoo as well. emerge sys-apps/help2man >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/help2man-1.45.1 * help2man-1.45.1.tar.xz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] <snip> configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /dev/shm/portage/sys-apps/help2man-1.45.1/work/help2man-1.45.1/config.log * ERROR: sys-apps/help2man-1.45.1::gentoo_prefix failed (configure phase): * econf failed emerge dev-perl/Locale-gettext <snip> emerge sys-apps/help2man <works fine>
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***
oh wait
(In reply to Michael Schubert from comment #0) > Note: this happens on Alt/Prefix but should be applicable to general Gentoo > as well. 1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment. > emerge sys-apps/help2man > >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/help2man-1.45.1 > * help2man-1.45.1.tar.xz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... > [ ok ] > <snip> 2) Please attach the entire build log to this bug report. > configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required > > !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: > !!! /dev/shm/portage/sys-apps/help2man-1.45.1/work/help2man-1.45.1/config.log 3) This ^^
Created attachment 374144 [details] config.log
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.19, 3.13.2-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.2-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_Dual_CPU_E2180_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 2043472 total, 804952 free KiB Swap: 2066580 total, 2021316 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p46 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.3.5 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.14 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19 Repositories: gentoo local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.3 Q3AEULA AdobeFlash-11.x" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ " LANG="fr_FR.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac alsa amd64 apng avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda clang cli consolekit cracklib crypt cxx dbus dconf dri dts dvd dvdnav eds encode exif faac faad fontconfig fuse gbm gdbm glamor gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk3 iconv icu ipv6 jpeg libnotify live matroska mmx modules mp3 mpeg multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre png policykit pulseaudio python readline rtsp session spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemd tcpd theora threads truetype udev udisks unicode uxa vala vorbis x264 xcb xv zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en fr" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel radeon vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
In my case it was a simple case of forgetting to run perl-cleaner after the upgrade to perl 5.18... I'll let the original reporter close the bug.
I can confirm this now, closing as a duplicate of #41124. My apologies for the report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***