This might only affect people with 5.10.1, but its also plausible it might affect people with 5.10.0 or lower with File-Next > 0.2 I need somebody who still has <5.10.1 to test this problem before claiming it a 5.10.1 problem. Due to the substantial size of the actual error output, I've not posted it on this bug, as it provides nothing of use. As far as /what/ the problem is, I have managed to find a solution that solves the problem, and have submitted my patches upstream. Arch : amd64 Perl : dev-lang/perl-5.10.1_rc1-r11 USE="berkdb debug gdbm ithreads -doc -build" libperl: sys-devel/libperl-5.10.1_rc1-r11 USE="berkdb debug gdbm ithreads" Portage 2.2_rc36 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:00:01 +000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1, 3.1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1
Created attachment 201028 [details, diff] sys-apps/ack/files/squash.patch
Created attachment 201029 [details] sys-apps/ack/ack-1.88-r2.ebuild Ebuild tweaked to use patch. For your convenience.
+ 08 Sep 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> +ack-1.90.ebuild: + Bump to 1.90, fixes #284183 Should fix this too.
