I tried to install the Perl module IPTables::IPv4 with g-cpan. It failed with the following errors: Installing modules in /usr/lib/IPTables-IPv4: install -d -m 755 /usr/lib/IPTables-IPv4 ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /usr/lib/IPTables-IPv4 install: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/IPTables-IPv4': Permission denied make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/IPTables-IPv4-0.98/work/IPTables-IPv4-0.98/modules' make: *** [install] Error 2 !!! ERROR: perl-gcpan/IPTables-IPv4-0.98 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_install ebuild.sh, line 1037: Called src_install ebuild.sh, line 1609: Called perl-module_src_install I used g-cpan-0.13.02. # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 distcc 2.18.3 i386-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://opaque/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.leo.org/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.ISO8859-1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa arts asf audiofile avi avifile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 caps cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga dhcp dio directfb dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd examples fbcon firefox foomaticdb ftp gdbm ggi gif gmp gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww live logrotate lzo mad maildir mbox mikmod mime mmx mmxext motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn nas ncurses netboot nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pop posix qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby sdl smime sockets socks5 sox speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vidix vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xanim xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Unfortunately, this will have to be a case of can't fix. The problem looks to be a bad makefile upstream (doesn't except PREFIX or DESTDIR based on your results), and there isn't much we can do in g-cpan to patch a file on the fly for that. Sorry, ~mcummings
