Bug 104187

Summary:	dev-lang/perl ebuild does not convert headers if using ROOT=/path
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gabe <gwiebe>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gabe 2005-08-29 14:57:51 UTC

in the pkg_postinst() method of the dev-lang/perl-5.8.7.ebuild, it skips the
"Converting C headers to Perl" step if the ROOT var is != /.  As a result, if I
try to run:

ROOT="/image" emerge dev-lang/perl

The following path is empty instead of containing .ph files:

/image/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ROOT="/image" emerge dev-lang/perl
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The following path in not populated:

/image/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/

Expected Results:  
The following path should be filled with the perl version of he /usr/src/linux
header files

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-04 04:12:36 UTC

Mass re-assign.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-09 09:11:11 UTC

Mass re-assign.

Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-18 15:12:25 UTC

Marking this wontfix - if ROOT != /, then its difficult to run this part since this takes place in POSTINST, ie after perl has been merged onto your shiny system.