Perl 5.8.5 was released about a week or so ago; I've copied over the libperl-5.8.4-r1 and perl-5.8.4 ebuilds to -5.8.5, and copied the 5.8.4-*.patch files for both (3 for libperl, 5 for perl) to 5.8.5-*, and the builds and all tests were successful on my x86 system, with USE=threads. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r8 (2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.8-rc2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-rc2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X aalib aavm acpi acpi4linux alsa avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icc imap imlib innodb javascript jpeg libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mysql ncurses nogcj nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png postgres prebuilt quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype trusted usb video_cards_radeon vim-with-x wmf x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
I should point out that 5.8.5 includes some updated versions to modules that have an ebuild in portage (which, in some cases, is outdated, and in others newer than 5.8.5's). I'm not sure how such cases are handled, if anything special is done at all. The ones that I encountered: dev-perl/CGI-3.05 dev-perl/Time-Local-1.10 dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 dev-perl/Text-Balanced-1.95 dev-perl/Test-Harness-2.42 dev-perl/Test-1.25 dev-perl/Storable-2.12 * 5.8.5 comes with 2.13 dev-perl/Safe-2.09 * 5.8.5 comes with 2.11 dev-perl/MIME-Base64 dev-perl/File-Spec-0.87 dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.21 % 5.8.5 only comes with 6.17 dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.33 * packages have a more recent version included in 5.8.5 than is currently available in portage, % packages have an older version that what portage currently offers.
Jason, The modules I'm updating as I get time. I'm afraid this ticket falls into the neglected category as there is now an ebuild for 5.8.5 in the tree. Sorry about that, Mike
