emerge of epic4 (also 5) is done successfully. after emerge it's impossible to connect to any irc server. it's impossible also to connect from command line by specifiing /server command. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge epic4 2. epic nick irc_server Actual Results: *** I can't find your mailbox. *** Connecting to port 6667 of server nextra.irc.sk [refnum 0] Hostname lookup for [nextra.irc.sk:6667] failed: temporary failure (2) *** Unable to connect to port 6667 of server nextra.irc.sk: [-5] The hostname does not resolve *** Sorry, cannot connect. Use /SERVER to connect to a server Expected Results: connect to irc server compile variables: USE="-X -java -qt -alsa -gnome -kde -gtk -svgalib apache2 dba gd gd-external" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="-sandbox" net-irc/epic4-2.0-r1 -debug -ipv6 +perl +ssl 0 epm -qa | grep perl libperl-5.8.4 perl-5.8.4 libwww-perl-5.79 but if I disable perl via USE="-perl" emerge epic4, program runs correctly
Created attachment 38253 [details] output of strace strace -f -o epic nextra.irc.sk
Works fine here, both with and without USE=perl. I'm currently not able to reproduce your error.
If you can reproduce on a recent version ( I used epic4-2.2 ) please re-open. Otherwise it just looks like your box might have had some other issues.