423029 – Perl Needed to Compile "gentoo-sources" Kernel

Bug 423029 - Perl Needed to Compile "gentoo-sources" Kernel

Summary: Perl Needed to Compile "gentoo-sources" Kernel

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 421483

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

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Reported:	2012-06-23 00:57 UTC by Matthew Emerson
Modified:	2012-06-23 02:52 UTC (History)
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Description Matthew Emerson 2012-06-23 00:57:55 UTC

After chrooting and configuring the "gentoo-sources" kernel manually the compilation (make && make modules_install) fails with Perl cannot be found. Its easy enough to fix just by a simple "emerge dev-lang/perl" after which the kernel compiles fine. The (amd64) "Handbook" doesn't mention installing Perl and maybe should just for the sake of thoroughness.

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-23 02:04:23 UTC

that's a bug on your side. can't reproduce -- this should never happen in anything approaching a normal system installation.

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-06-23 02:52:25 UTC

Actually, this is because the kernel needs perl to build but does not specify a dependency on it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 421483 ***