executing foomatic from the bash shell command line as follows results in errors returned to the screen as follows: bash-2.05a# foomatic-configure -O Can't locate Foomatic/Defaults.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686- linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686- linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line 13. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line 13. bash-2.05a# Note: Defaults.pm and DB.pm, etc. located at: /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Foomatic foomatic unmerged and remerged after emerge rsync with same result. All dependencies satisfied. All gentoo world and system packages up to date. Same result.
please emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r1. this fixes a bug in perl module installation. after this, you'll need to re-emerge foomatic and any other perl modules that were installed under the buggy MakeMaker (a safe bet is to re-emerge all of them). please reply here if this fixes the problem.
Yep! That did it. Re-merged the ExtUtils-Makemaker and foomatic and thence foomatic-configure -O works as advertised. Thanks!