I tried to upgrade perl from 5.8.0-r5 to -r7. It fails with the attached stderr when running emerge -u perl. I had db-4.1.24. However, if I downgrade to db-3.2.9-r1, perl builds with no problems.
Created attachment 6843 [details] emerge -u perl stderr
Please emerge sync and check again. DB4 has been pulled from all archs because it has issues (incompatibilities) and is not supported at all. When you sync, you should see in the db-4.1.24 ebuild that all arch's are marked "-" - this means that this ebuild is not only not supported, it is in the process of being completely yanked.
until db-4 is released to gentoo (not -arch'd), this can't be approached. Once it is actively in portage again, we can readdress this if necessary.
actually, robert's working on db-4 issues currently, let's hand this to him
Can someone tell me the proper way to add items to the include path during perl's Configure script, I want to add '-I/usr/include/db4'. So I have to resort to sed?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9988 ***