The bootstrap process on FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 produced the following QA notice when installing dev-lang/perl-5.16.0: * QA Notice: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME * /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.16.0
this is normal, most likely scanelf isn't installed yet.
# emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/9.1, gcc-4.6.4, freebsd-lib-9.1-r11, 9.1-r5-Gentoo amd64) ================================================================= System uname: FreeBSD-9.1-r5-Gentoo-amd64-64bit-ELF KiB Mem: 1028572 total KiB Swap: 3145624 total Timestamp of tree: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.13.2, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib: 9.1-r11 (virtual/os-headers) Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64-fbsd ~amd64-fbsd" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-gentoo-freebsd9.1" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=generic" CHOST="x86_64-gentoo-freebsd9.1" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=generic" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs chflags config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/systemd" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/binpackages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="acl amd64-fbsd berkdb bindist cracklib crypt cxx dri gdbm iconv ipv6 java5 java6 mmx modules multilib ncurses nls oss pam pcre python2 readline sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ABI_X86="64" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="FreeBSD" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="FreeBSD" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="BSD" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy i128 intel mach64 mga nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis tga trident tseng fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON I have scanelf installed and same happened with dev-lang/perl-5.16.3 >>> Messages generated by process 20088 on 2014-02-11 12:21:50 UTC for package dev-lang/perl-5.16.3: QA: other QA Notice: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.16.3