while building a new gentoo VM for my lab, I noticed that grub failed to build. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/help2man line 30. make[2]: *** [Makefile:14154: grub-mkconfig.8] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Locale::gettext module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/5.32/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/5.30.3 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30.3) at /usr/bin/help2man line 30. dev-perl/Locale-gettext is installed: sysrescue /usr/src/linux # equery y Locale-gettext Keywords for dev-perl/Locale-gettext: | | u | | a a p s a r | n | | m r h p p s l i i m m | e u s | r | d a m p p c a x 3 p a s 6 i | a s l | e | 6 r 6 p p 6 r 8 9 h 6 c 8 p | p e o | p | 4 m 4 a c 4 c 6 0 a 4 v k s | i d t | o ----------+-----------------------------+-------+------- [I]1.70.0 | + + + + + + + + + ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | 6 o 0 | gentoo
/usr/src/linux # emerge --info grub Portage 3.0.14 (python 3.8.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.32-r7, 5.4.83-1-lts x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.83-1-lts-x86_64-QEMU_Virtual_CPU_version_2.5+-with-glibc2.2.5 KiB Mem: 8152776 total, 1433608 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: a86cc33d1a1435c269b2ab76d111293a08b9df78 sh bash 5.1_p4 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 app-shells/bash: 5.1_p4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.32.0-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.8.7-r1::gentoo, 3.9.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.19.3::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.20::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.3-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.34-r2::gentoo, 2.35.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 9.3.0-r2::gentoo, 10.2.0-r5::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.3.2-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.10::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.32-r7::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="C.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" 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 --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 libglvnd libtirpc libzfs ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre readline seccomp split-usr ssl systemd tcpd unicode xattr zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-3 php7-4" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_8" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_8" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" 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: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
1) don’t rely on equery, it’s an approximation 2) errors like this are often because USE flags on Perl changed or something similar. Run perl-cleaner —-all?
perl-cleaner --all did the trick Thanks
