i had a fresh stage3 install on fr 14.04. with a stage3 tarball from that date. steps to reproduce: 1. set USE=minimal 2. emerge -uDavN world 3. emerge fvwm -> error when installing intltool: something like: "Can't locate AutoSplit.pm in ..." i dont kave the complete outout, and as this is a quite old mashine i dont want to reproduce if its not nesesary. have a look at this forums thread: http://www.netsc.ch/forum/viewtopic.php?p=209&sid=e6228747204aa8abfc5a7347c2a96342 this guy had the same problem (and didnt filed a bug ;) (i think/hope)) i ran "revdep-rebuild" and "perl-cleaner all", which didnt reported any problems. i think this is connected with bug#95038 # emerge --info Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.2/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli ctype cups dba divx4linux dri emboss encode ethereal expat fastbuild firefox foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg libg++ libwww memlimit mikmod minimal motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python quicktime readline real recode samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets spl ssl tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xsl xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Perl with USE=minimal is not suitable for general use with other applications. Don't use it unless you know what you are doing.