well, I've just made a gentoo 1.2 system bootstrap with gcc 3.1 (gcc3 profile) the bootstrap went bad due to texinfo and so on and so on, but I could finish it using emerge by hand (after ripping texinfo from gcc 3.1) Now, I've started #emerge system, and the first thing that doesn't work is perl.. make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1/x2p' sh ../makedepend MAKE=make make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1/x2p' echo hash.c str.c util.c walk.c | tr ' ' '\n' >.clist make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1/x2p'Finding dependencies for hash.o. Finding dependencies for str.o. Finding dependencies for util.o. Finding dependencies for walk.o. make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1/x2p' echo Makefile.SH cflags.SH | tr ' ' '\n' >.shlist make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1/x2p'Updating makefile... make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1/x2p'make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/reiser/build/perl-5.6.1-r3/work/perl-5.6.1' make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by `perl.o'. Stop. !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/sys-devel/perl/perl-5.6.1-r3.ebuild . Im not sure if I can get this working, but I'll try, if not I'll get back. all ideas/patches are appreciated. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end