Tried `emerge --emptytree world' as suggested in IRC, which banged into this bug; however, `emerge libperl' shows the bug as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge libperl 2. 3. Actual Results: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/libperl-5.8.2/work/perl-5.8.2' echo Makefile.SH cflags.SH config_h.SH makeaperl.SH makedepend.SH makedir.SH myconfig.SH writemain.SH pod/Makefile.SH | tr ' ' '\n' >.shlist make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libperl-5.8.2/work/perl-5.8.2' Updating makefile... test -s perlmain.c && touch perlmain.c cd x2p; make depend make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/libperl-5.8.2/work/perl-5.8.2/x2p'makefile:157: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libperl-5.8.2/work/perl-5.8.2/x2p' make: *** [depend] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 205, Exitcode 2 !!! Couldn't make libperl.so depends Expected Results: Presumably, a successful emerge. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.24) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.24 i686 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34732 ***