As the topic says, I can`t compile perl, which isn`t that much of a
problem, except that every time I run emerge -u world, perl is one o the
first to go, and then fails, making me have to update everything
manuall. here is the "final output:

(quote start)
/usr/include/ndbm.h:21: unterminated string or character constant
/usr/include/ndbm.h:4: possible real start of unterminated constant
In file included from NDBM_File.xs:9:
/usr/include/ndbm.h:1: parse error before character 0177
/usr/include/ndbm.h:1: stray '\' in program
/usr/include/ndbm.h:1: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal
/usr/include/ndbm.h:1: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal
/usr/include/ndbm.h:3: stray '\' in program
/usr/include/ndbm.h:3: stray '\' in program
/usr/include/ndbm.h:3: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal
/usr/include/ndbm.h:3: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal
/usr/include/ndbm.h:6: warning: unknown escape sequence `\$'
/usr/include/ndbm.h:14: warning: unknown escape sequence: `\' followed
by char code 0x16
/usr/include/ndbm.h:181: stray '\' in program
/usr/include/ndbm.h:181: stray '\' in program
/usr/include/ndbm.h:448: Unterminated string constant
make[1]: *** [NDBM_File.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/perl-5.6.1-r4/work/perl-5.6.1/ext/NDBM_File'
make: *** [lib/auto/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.so] Error 2
(quote end)

What to do?

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Andreas Mellingen aka RaZieL