Hi, I remember to have had a same bug elsewhere, but I can't remember where and what the solution has been. Here's what I get (fresh system with 1.4): >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/Irssi.bs >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/Irssi.so >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/.packlist >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/Irc/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/Irc/Irc.bs >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/Irc/Irc.so >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/Irc/.packlist >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/UI/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/UI/UI.bs >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/UI/UI.so >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/UI/.packlist >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/TextUI/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/TextUI/TextUI.bs >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/TextUI/TextUI.so >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Irssi/TextUI/.packlist >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Irssi.pm >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Irssi/ >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Irssi/Irc.pm >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Irssi/UI.pm >>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Irssi/TextUI.pm >>> /usr/lib/5.6.1/ >>> /usr/lib/5.6.1/i686-linux/ >>> /usr/lib/5.6.1/i686-linux/perllocal.pod
I've found it. ExtUtils-MakeMaker needs to be installed. Please add this to the dependencies.
it almost looks like this one overwrites perllocal.pod I guess this thing needs to be eclassed as well..
perllocal.pod support is on my list of things to correct with sandboxed ebuilds. It is accounted for when the perl-post eclass is used. It also sounds like the 1.4 iso is very stale since these problems were resolved more than a few weeks ago in the ExtUtils-MakeMaker ebuild. Alexander, (hi!), you have two approaches you can take to combat this problem. You can either emerge the ExtUtils-MakeMaker ebuild, which is inherited by other perl modules but sometimes gets missed by other apps that have perl portions that don't rely on the eclass, -or- you can install perl 5.6.1-r7, which incoporates the MakeMaker fix internally.
Bug 9067 fixes this *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9067 ***