I have noticed that a few modules for perl are installed under /usr/lib/site_perl rather than a directory searched by perl. One example is MIME::Base64. I recently started using gentoo and came across this while installing gentoo-stats which didn't run after installing its dependencies. perl -V ends with: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Sep 6 2002 00:59:06 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . and looking at modules under /usr/lib/site_perl (not in @INC) there are a lot of modules. bash-2.05a$ for f in `find /usr/lib/site_perl -type f`; do qpkg -f $f >>/tmp/packages; done bash-2.05a$ sort /tmp/packages | uniq dev-perl/Digest-MD5 * dev-perl/HTML-Parser * dev-perl/HTML-Tagset * dev-perl/MIME-Base64 * dev-perl/URI * dev-perl/libnet * dev-perl/libwww-perl * As a work around I copied the tree over /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/... Should these have been installed under /usr/lib/perl5/... in the first place? These were all emerged over the past day or two (Oct 14 through 16) The versions installed as reported by qpkg -l are sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r6 dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.20 dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.26-r1 dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.03-r1 dev-perl/MIME-Base64-2.12-r1 dev-perl/URI-1.18 dev-perl/libnet-1.11 dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.64 There seem to be more recent perl 5.6.1's, but the -r6 was what I got when I installed via a stage 3 tarball for a K6-3. Perl 5.6.1 -r7's @INC is the same as -r6's and now I have to leanr more about Portage...
update your system/perl *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9067 ***
