if you build a new gentoo (emerge system -v) with minimal config (USE="-X -nls -berkdb -gdbm -pam crypt -acl ipv6 -python -spell -slang ssl") automake will stop with this messge: grml... cant find it anymore. automake need perl within configure... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: Automake: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apm arts avi bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib png qt quicktime readline sdl ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib" i use this machine for a crossbuild.
found the message: >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> emerge (12 of 81) sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.8.5.tar.bz2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.7.9.tar.bz2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.5.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking automake-1.8.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work >>> Unpacking automake-1.7.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work >>> Unpacking automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work >>> Unpacking automake-1.5.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work >>> Unpacking automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work * Applying automake-1.5-target_hook.patch... [ ok ] * Applying automake-1.7.9-infopage-namechange.patch... [ ok ] * Applying automake-1.8.2-infopage-namechange.patch... [ ok ] * Applying automake-1.8.5-config-guess-uclibc.patch... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 95: perl: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 97: perl: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 99: perl: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 100: perl: command not found checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for perl... no configure: error: perl not found !!! ERROR: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 107, Exitcode 1 !!! configure 1.8x failed
emerge -pv system The dependency is listed in the ebuild.
Can't fix it without a response.
Closing due to old age
