If you have perl and libperl installed and then decide to change ithreads useflag, remerge them then you'll have to remerge some packages with perl-cleaner. My suggestion is to add a note about it in the perl and libperl ebuilds. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have a system with USE=-ithreads perl, libperl and vim installed 2. USE=ithreads emerge libperl perl 3. vim Actual Results: vim: symbol lookup error: vim: undefined symol: PL_curpad Expected Results: vim is started Vim is just an illustration, the issue is that it's hard to find out that there is this nice perl-cleaner, so we should tell about it on remerging perl on ithreads flag change. Otherwise user will have "random" packages broken(remerge needed).
<http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1.ebuild?view=markup> if has_version dev-lang/perl ; then if ( use ithreads && ! has_version dev-lang/perl[ithreads] ) || \ ( ! use ithreads && has_version dev-lang/perl[ithreads] ) || \ ( use debug && ! has_version dev-lang/perl[debug] ) || \ ( ! use debug && has_version dev-lang/perl[debug] ) ; then ewarn "TOGGLED USE-FLAGS WARNING:" ewarn "You changed one of the use-flags ithreads or debug." ewarn "You must rebuild all perl-modules installed." ewarn "Use: perl-cleaner --modules ; perl-cleaner --force --libperl" epause fi fi That's already in perl-5.10.1.
(In reply to comment #1) > That's already in perl-5.10.1. Nice :), what about porting it to stable perl-5.8.8?
*** Bug 303985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > That's already in perl-5.10.1. > > Nice :), what about porting it to stable perl-5.8.8? I didn't do it because i didn't wanted to bump EAPI for that old version.
