[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/9] dev-lang/perl: Migrate to PERL_FEATURES

["Andreas K. Hüttel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
---
 dev-lang/perl/perl-5.38.2-r3.ebuild | 864 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 profiles/base/make.defaults         |   2 +-
 profiles/desc/perl_features.desc    |   9 +
 3 files changed, 874 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 dev-lang/perl/perl-5.38.2-r3.ebuild
 create mode 100644 profiles/desc/perl_features.desc

diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.38.2-r3.ebuild b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.38.2-r3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2aadb0bdd96a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.38.2-r3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,864 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit alternatives flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib multiprocessing
+
+PATCH_VER=1
+CROSS_VER=1.5.2
+PATCH_BASE="perl-5.38.0-patches-${PATCH_VER}"
+PATCH_DEV=dilfridge
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=PEVANS
+
+# Greatest first, don't include yourself
+# Devel point-releases are not ABI-intercompatible, but stable point releases are
+# BIN_OLDVERSEN contains only C-ABI-intercompatible versions
+PERL_BIN_OLDVERSEN=""
+
+if [[ "${PV##*.}" == "9999" ]]; then
+	DIST_VERSION=5.30.0
+else
+	DIST_VERSION="${PV/_rc/-RC}"
+fi
+SHORT_PV="${DIST_VERSION%.*}"
+
+# Even numbered major versions are ABI intercompatible
+# Odd numbered major versions are not
+if [[ $(( ${SHORT_PV#*.} % 2 )) == 1 ]]; then
+	SUBSLOT="${DIST_VERSION%-RC*}"
+else
+	SUBSLOT="${DIST_VERSION%.*}"
+fi
+
+# Used only in tar paths
+MY_P="perl-${DIST_VERSION}"
+# Used in library paths
+MY_PV="${DIST_VERSION%-RC*}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language"
+
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.perl.org/"
+
+SRC_URI="
+	mirror://cpan/src/5.0/${MY_P}.tar.xz
+	mirror://cpan/authors/id/${DIST_AUTHOR:0:1}/${DIST_AUTHOR:0:2}/${DIST_AUTHOR}/${MY_P}.tar.xz
+	https://github.com/gentoo-perl/perl-patchset/archive/refs/tags/${PATCH_BASE}.tar.gz
+	https://dev.gentoo.org/~${PATCH_DEV}/distfiles/${PATCH_BASE}.tar.gz
+	https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/${CROSS_VER}/perl-cross-${CROSS_VER}.tar.gz
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ )"
+
+SLOT="0/${SUBSLOT}"
+
+if [[ "${PV##*.}" != "9999" ]] && [[ "${PV/rc//}" == "${PV}" ]] ; then
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+fi
+
+IUSE="berkdb perl_features_debug doc gdbm perl_features_ithreads minimal perl_features_quadmath"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:= )
+	gdbm? ( >=sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3:= )
+	app-arch/bzip2
+	>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.12
+	virtual/libcrypt:=
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+PDEPEND="
+	>=app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.30
+	!minimal? (
+		>=virtual/perl-CPAN-2.290.0
+		>=virtual/perl-Encode-3.120.0
+		>=virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.230.400-r2
+		>=virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.154.0
+		>=virtual/perl-Math-BigInt-1.999.842
+		virtual/perl-Test-Harness
+	)
+"
+# bug 390719, bug 523624
+# virtual/perl-Test-Harness is here for the bundled ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+dual_scripts() {
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Archive-Tar        2.400.0       ptar ptardiff ptargrep
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/CPAN               2.360.0       cpan
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Digest-SHA         6.40.0        shasum
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Encode             3.190.0       enc2xs piconv
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker 7.700.0       instmodsh
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS   3.510.0       xsubpp
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/IO-Compress        2.204.0       zipdetails
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/JSON-PP            4.160.0        json_pp
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Module-CoreList    5.202.311.290 corelist
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Pod-Checker        1.750.0       podchecker
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Pod-Perldoc        3.280.100     perldoc
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Pod-Usage          2.30.0       pod2usage
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Test-Harness       3.440.0       prove
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/podlators          5.10.0       pod2man pod2text
+	src_remove_dual_man  perl-core/podlators          5.10.0       /usr/share/man/man1/perlpodstyle.1
+}
+
+check_rebuild() {
+	# Fresh install
+	if [[ -z "${REPLACING_VERSIONS}" ]]; then
+		return 0;
+	# Major Upgrade
+	# doesn't matter if there's multiple copies, it still needs a rebuild
+	# if the string is anything other than "5.CURRENTMAJOR"
+	elif [[ "${REPLACING_VERSIONS%.*}" != "${PV%.*}" ]]; then
+		echo ""
+		ewarn "UPDATE THE PERL MODULES:"
+		ewarn "After updating dev-lang/perl the installed Perl modules"
+		ewarn "have to be re-installed. In most cases, this is done automatically"
+		ewarn "by the package manager, but subsequent steps are still recommended"
+		ewarn "to ensure system consistency."
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "You should start with a depclean to remove any unused perl dependencies"
+		ewarn "that may confuse portage in future. Regular depcleans are also encouraged"
+		ewarn "as part of your regular update cycle, as that will keep perl upgrades working."
+		ewarn "Recommended: emerge --depclean -va"
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "You should then call perl-cleaner to clean up any old files and trigger any"
+		ewarn "remaining rebuilds portage may have missed."
+		ewarn "Use: perl-cleaner --all"
+		return 0;
+
+	# Reinstall w/ USE Change
+	elif
+		 (   use perl_features_ithreads && ( has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-ithreads]' || has_version '>=dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-perl_features_ithreads]' ) ) || \
+		 ( ! use perl_features_ithreads && ( has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[ithreads]'  || has_version '>=dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[perl_features_ithreads]'  ) ) || \
+		 (   use perl_features_quadmath && ( has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-quadmath]' || has_version '>=dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-perl_features_quadmath]' ) ) || \
+		 ( ! use perl_features_quadmath && ( has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[quadmath]'  || has_version '>=dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[perl_features_quadmath]'  ) ) || \
+		 (   use perl_features_debug    && ( has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-debug]'    || has_version '>=dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-perl_features_debug]'    ) ) || \
+		 ( ! use perl_features_debug    && ( has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[debug]'     || has_version '>=dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[perl_features_debug]'     ) ) ; then
+		echo ""
+		ewarn "TOGGLED PERL FEATURES WARNING:"
+		ewarn "You changed one of the PERL_FEATURES flags ithreads, quadmath, or debug."
+		ewarn "You must rebuild all perl-modules installed. Mostly this should be done automatically"
+		ewarn "via the flag changes of the packages. If the rebuild fails, use perl-cleaner."
+		ewarn "Use: perl-cleaner --modules ; perl-cleaner --force --libperl"
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "NOTE: Previous to perl-5.38.2-r3, these flags were useflags for dev-lang/perl."
+		ewarn "If you just upgraded and do not intend to change anything, carry the same settings over"
+		ewarn "into a global PERL_FEATURES variable set in make.conf. E.g., "
+		ewarn "dev-lang/perl[ithreads,quadmath] becomes PERL_FEATURES=\"ithreads quadmath\""
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_pretend() {
+	if \
+		 (   use perl_features_ithreads && has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-ithreads]' ) || \
+		 ( ! use perl_features_ithreads && has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[ithreads]'  ) || \
+		 (   use perl_features_quadmath && has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-quadmath]' ) || \
+		 ( ! use perl_features_quadmath && has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[quadmath]'  ) || \
+		 (   use perl_features_debug    && has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[-debug]'    ) || \
+		 ( ! use perl_features_debug    && has_version '<dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3[debug]'     ) ;  \
+	then
+		echo ""
+		ewarn "As of dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3, the useflags debug, ithreads, quadmath move into"
+		ewarn "a use-expand variable PERL_FEATURES, which should be set globally in make.conf."
+		ewarn "It appears that you have not set this variable properly yet."
+		ewarn ""
+		ewarn "Giving you a chance to abort and read the corresponding news item now..."
+		for n in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ; do
+			echo -n "${n} "
+			sleep 1
+		done;
+		echo "continuing."
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	case ${CHOST} in
+		*-darwin*)    osname="darwin" ;;
+		*-solaris*)   osname="solaris" ;;
+		*)            osname="linux" ;;
+	esac
+
+	myarch="${CHOST%%-*}-${osname}"
+	if use perl_features_debug ; then
+		myarch+="-debug"
+	fi
+	if use perl_features_quadmath ; then
+		myarch+="-quadmath"
+	fi
+	if use perl_features_ithreads ; then
+		mythreading="-multi"
+		myarch+="-thread"
+	fi
+
+	PRIV_BASE="/usr/$(get_libdir)/perl5"
+	SITE_BASE="/usr/local/$(get_libdir)/perl5"
+	VENDOR_BASE="/usr/$(get_libdir)/perl5/vendor_perl"
+
+	LIBPERL="libperl$(get_libname ${MY_PV} )"
+
+	PRIV_LIB="${PRIV_BASE}/${SUBSLOT}"
+	ARCH_LIB="${PRIV_BASE}/${SUBSLOT}/${myarch}${mythreading}"
+	SITE_LIB="${SITE_BASE}/${SUBSLOT}"
+	SITE_ARCH="${SITE_BASE}/${SUBSLOT}/${myarch}${mythreading}"
+	VENDOR_LIB="${VENDOR_BASE}/${SUBSLOT}"
+	VENDOR_ARCH="${VENDOR_BASE}/${SUBSLOT}/${myarch}${mythreading}"
+
+	dual_scripts
+}
+
+src_remove_dual_file() {
+	local i pkg ver
+	pkg="$1"
+	ver="$2"
+	shift 2
+	case "${EBUILD_PHASE:-none}" in
+		postinst|postrm)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				alternatives_auto_makesym "${i}" "${i}-[0-9]*"
+			done
+			;;
+		setup)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				if [[ -f ${EROOT}${i} && ! -h ${EROOT}${i} ]] ; then
+					has_version ${pkg} && ewarn "You must reinstall ${pkg} !"
+					break
+				fi
+			done
+			;;
+		install)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				if ! [[ -f "${ED}"${i} ]] ; then
+					ewarn "${i} does not exist!"
+					continue
+				fi
+				mv "${ED}"${i}{,-${ver}-${P}} || die
+			done
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+src_remove_dual_man() {
+	local i pkg ver ff
+	pkg="$1"
+	ver="$2"
+	shift 2
+	case "${EBUILD_PHASE:-none}" in
+		postinst|postrm)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				ff=`echo "${EROOT}${i%.[0-9]}-${ver}-${P}${i#${i%.[0-9]}}"*`
+				ff=${ff##*${i#${i%.[0-9]}}}
+				alternatives_auto_makesym "${i}${ff}" "${i%.[0-9]}-[0-9]*"
+			done
+			;;
+		install)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				if ! [[ -f "${ED}"${i} ]] ; then
+					ewarn "${i} does not exist!"
+					continue
+				fi
+				mv "${ED}"${i} "${ED}"${i%.[0-9]}-${ver}-${P}${i#${i%.[0-9]}} || die
+			done
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+src_remove_dual() {
+	local i pkg ver
+	pkg="$1"
+	ver="$2"
+	shift 2
+	for i in "$@" ; do
+		src_remove_dual_file  "${pkg}" "${ver}" "/usr/bin/${i}"
+		src_remove_dual_man   "${pkg}" "${ver}" "/usr/share/man/man1/${i}.1"
+	done
+}
+
+src_prepare_perlcross() {
+	cp -a ../perl-cross-${CROSS_VER}/* . || die
+
+	# bug 794463, needs further analysis what is exactly wrong here
+	eapply "${FILESDIR}/perl-5.34.0-crossfit.patch"
+
+	# bug 604072
+	MAKEOPTS+=" -j1"
+	export MAKEOPTS
+}
+
+src_prepare_dynamic() {
+	ln -s ${LIBPERL} libperl$(get_libname ${SHORT_PV}) || die
+	ln -s ${LIBPERL} libperl$(get_libname ) || die
+}
+
+# Copy a patch into the patch series
+# add_patch SRC_PATH DEST_NAME ['description'] ['bug'] ['bug']
+# - description is optional, but recommended
+# - all arguments after descriptions are bug URLs
+add_patch() {
+	local patchdir="${WORKDIR}/patches"
+	local infodir="${WORKDIR}/patch-info"
+	local src_name dest_name desc
+	src_name="$1"
+	dest_name="$2"
+	desc="$3"
+	shift; shift; shift;
+	einfo "Adding ${dest_name} to patch bundle"
+	cp "${src_name}" "${patchdir}/${dest_name}" || die "Couldn't copy ${src_name} to ${dest_name}"
+	if [[ -n "${desc}" ]]; then
+		printf "%s" "${desc}" > "${infodir}/${dest_name}.desc" || die "Couldn't write ${dest_name}.desc"
+	fi
+	if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
+		# Note: when $@ is more than one element, this emits a
+		# line for each element
+		printf "%s\n" "$@" > "${infodir}/${dest_name}.bugs" || die "Couldn't write ${dest_name}.bugs"
+	fi
+}
+
+# Remove a patch using a glob expr
+# eg:
+#	 rm_patch *-darwin-Use-CC*
+#
+rm_patch() {
+	local patchdir="${WORKDIR}/patches"
+	local expr="$1"
+	local patch="$( cd "${patchdir}"; echo $expr )"
+	einfo "Removing $patch ($expr) from patch bundle"
+	if [[ -e "${patchdir}/${patch}" ]]; then
+		rm -f "${patchdir}/${patch}" || die "Can't remove ${patch} ( $expr )"
+	else
+		ewarn "No ${expr} found in ${patchdir} to remove"
+	fi
+}
+
+# Yes, this is a reasonable amount of code for something seemingly simple
+# but this is far easier to debug when things go wrong, and things went wrong
+# multiple times while I was getting the exact number of slashes right, which
+# requires circumnavigating both bash and sed escape mechanisms.
+c_escape_string() {
+	local slash dquote
+	slash='\'
+	dquote='"'
+	re_slash="${slash}${slash}"
+	re_dquote="${slash}${dquote}"
+
+	# Convert \ to \\,
+	#         " to \"
+	echo "$1" |\
+		sed "s|${re_slash}|${re_slash}${re_slash}|g" |\
+		sed "s|${re_dquote}|${re_slash}${re_dquote}|g"
+}
+c_escape_file() {
+	c_escape_string "$(cat "$1")"
+}
+
+apply_patchdir() {
+	local patchdir="${WORKDIR}/patches"
+	local infodir="${WORKDIR}/patch-info"
+	local patchoutput="patchlevel-gentoo.h"
+
+	# Inject Patch-Level info into description for patchlevel.h patch
+	# to show in -V
+	local patch_expr="*List-packaged-patches*"
+	local patch="$( cd "${patchdir}"; echo $patch_expr )";
+	einfo "Injecting patch-level info into ${patch}.desc ( $patch_expr )"
+
+	if [[ -e "${patchdir}/${patch}" ]]; then
+		printf "List packaged patches for %s(%s) in patchlevel.h" "${PF}" "${PATCH_BASE}"\
+			>"${infodir}/${patch}.desc" || die "Can't rewrite ${patch}.desc"
+	else
+		eerror "No $patch_expr found in ${patchdir}"
+	fi
+
+	# Compute patch list to apply
+	# different name other than PATCHES to stop default
+	# reapplying it
+	# Single depth is currently only supported, as artifacts can reside
+	# from the old layout being multiple-directories, as well as it grossly
+	# simplifying the patchlevel_gentoo.h generation.
+	local PERL_PATCHES=($(
+		find "${patchdir}" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n" |\
+			grep -E '[.](diff|patch)$' |\
+			sort -n
+	))
+
+	for patch in "${PERL_PATCHES[@]}"; do
+		eapply "${WORKDIR}"/patches/${patch}
+	done
+
+	einfo "Generating $patchoutput"
+
+	# This code creates a header file, each iteration
+	# creates one-or-more-lines for each entry found in PERL_PATCHES
+	# and STDOUT is redirected to the .h file
+	for patch in "${PERL_PATCHES[@]}"; do
+		local desc_f="${infodir}/${patch}.desc"
+		local bugs_f="${infodir}/${patch}.bugs"
+
+		printf ',"%s"\n' "${patch}"
+		if [[ ! -e "${desc_f}" ]]; then
+			ewarn "No description provided for ${patch} (expected: ${desc_f} )"
+		else
+			local desc="$(c_escape_file "${desc_f}")"
+			printf ',"- %s"\n' "${desc}"
+		fi
+		if [[ -e "${bugs_f}" ]]; then
+			while read -d $'\n' -r line; do
+				local esc_line="$(c_escape_string "${line}")"
+				printf ',"- Bug: %s"\n' "${esc_line}"
+			done <"${bugs_f}"
+		fi
+	done > "${S}/${patchoutput}"
+	printf "%s\n" "${patchoutput}" >> "${S}/MANIFEST"
+
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+
+	local patchdir="${WORKDIR}/patches"
+
+	mv -v "${WORKDIR}/perl-patchset-${PATCH_BASE}/patches" "${WORKDIR}/patches" || die
+	mv -v "${WORKDIR}/perl-patchset-${PATCH_BASE}/patch-info" "${WORKDIR}/patch-info" || die
+
+	# Prepare Patch dir with additional patches / remove unwanted patches
+	# Inject bug/desc entries for perl -V
+	# Old example:
+	# add_patch "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-5.26.2-hppa.patch" "100-5.26.2-hppa.patch"\
+	#		"Fix broken miniperl on hppa"\
+	#		"https://bugs.debian.org/869122" "https://bugs.gentoo.org/634162"
+	add_patch "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-5.36.0-fix-configure-for-clang.patch" \
+			"100-5.36.0-fix-configure-for-clang.patch" \
+			"Fix clang check in configure" \
+			"https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21099"
+
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-solaris* ]] ; then
+		# do NOT mess with nsl, on Solaris this is always necessary,
+		# when -lsocket is used e.g. to get h_errno
+		rm_patch "*-nsl-and-cl*"
+	fi
+
+	apply_patchdir
+
+	tc-is-cross-compiler && src_prepare_perlcross
+
+	tc-is-static-only || src_prepare_dynamic
+
+	if use gdbm; then
+		sed -i "s:INC => .*:INC => \"-I${EROOT}/usr/include/gdbm\":g" \
+			ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL || die
+	fi
+
+	# Use errno.h from prefix rather than from host system, bug #645804
+	if use prefix && [[ -e "${EPREFIX}"/usr/include/errno.h ]] ; then
+		sed -i "/my..sysroot/s:'':'${EPREFIX}':" ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL || die
+	fi
+
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-solaris* ]] ; then
+		# set a soname, fix linking against just built libperl
+		sed -i -e 's/netbsd\*/netbsd*|solaris*/' Makefile.SH || die
+	fi
+
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
+		# fix install_name (soname) not to reference $D
+		sed -i -e '/install_name `pwd/s/`pwd`/\\$(shrpdir)/' Makefile.SH || die
+
+		# fix environ linkage absence (only a real issue on Darwin9)
+		if [[ ${CHOST##*-darwin} -le 9 ]] ; then
+			sed -i -e '/^PLDLFLAGS =/s/=/= -include crt_externs.h -Denviron="(*_NSGetEnviron())"/' \
+				Makefile.SH || die
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	default
+}
+
+myconf() {
+	# the myconf array is declared in src_configure
+	myconf=( "${myconf[@]}" "$@" )
+}
+
+# Outputs a list of versions which have been seen in any of the
+# primary perl @INC prefix paths, such as:
+#  /usr/lib64/perl5/<NUMBER>
+#  /usr/local/lib64/perl5/<NUMBER>
+#  /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/<NUMBER>
+#
+# All values of NUMBER must be like "5.x.y" or like "5.x"
+#
+find_candidate_inc_versions() {
+	local regex='.*/5[.][0-9]+\([.][0-9]+\|\)$'
+	local dirs=(
+		"${EROOT}${PRIV_BASE}"
+		"${EROOT}${SITE_BASE}"
+		"${EROOT}${VENDOR_BASE}"
+	)
+	for dir in "${dirs[@]}"; do
+		if [[ ! -e "${dir}" ]]; then
+			continue
+		fi
+		# Without access to readdir() on these dirs, find will not be able
+		# to reveal any @INC directories inside them, and will subsequently prune
+		# them from the built perl's @INC support, breaking our compatiblity options
+		# entirely.
+		if [[ ! -r "${dir}" || ! -x "${dir}" ]]; then
+			eerror "Bad permissions on ${dir}, this will probably break things"
+			eerror "Ensure ${dir} is +rx for at least uid=$EUID"
+			eerror "Recommended permission is +rx for all"
+			eerror "> chmod o+rx ${dir}"
+		fi
+	done
+	einfo "Scanning for old @INC dirs matching '$regex' in: ${dirs[*]}"
+	find "${dirs[@]}" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -regex "${regex}" -printf "%f "  2>/dev/null
+}
+
+# Sort versions passed versiony-ly, remove self-version if present
+# dedup. Takes each version as an argument
+sanitize_inc_versions() {
+	local vexclude="${SUBSLOT}"
+	einfo "Normalizing/Sorting candidate list: $*"
+	einfo " to remove '${vexclude}'"
+	# Note, general numeric sort has to be used
+	# for the last component, or unique will convert
+	#  5.30.0 + 5.30 into just 5.30
+	printf "%s\n" "$@" |\
+		grep -vxF "${vexclude}" |\
+		sort -u -nr -t'.' -k1,1rn -k2,2rn -k3,3rg
+}
+
+versions_to_inclist() {
+	local oldv="${DIST_VERSION%-RC} ${PERL_BIN_OLDVERSEN}"
+
+	for v;	do
+			has "${v}" ${oldv} && echo -n "${v}/${myarch}${mythreading}/ ";
+			echo -n "${v}/ ";
+	done
+}
+
+versions_to_gentoolibdirs() {
+	local oldv="${DIST_VERSION%-RC} ${PERL_BIN_OLDVERSEN}"
+	local root
+	local v
+	for v;	do
+		for root in "${PRIV_BASE}" "${VENDOR_BASE}" "${SITE_BASE}"; do
+			local fullpath="${EROOT}${root}/${v}"
+			if [[ -e "${fullpath}" ]]; then
+				has "${v}" ${oldv} && printf "%s:" "${fullpath}/${myarch}${mythreading}";
+				printf "%s:" "${fullpath}"
+			fi
+		done
+	done
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	declare -a myconf
+
+	export LC_ALL="C"
+	[[ ${COLUMNS:-1} -ge 1 ]] || unset COLUMNS # bug #394091
+
+	# Perl has problems compiling with -Os in your flags with glibc
+	replace-flags "-Os" "-O2"
+
+	# xlocale.h is going away in glibc-2.26, so it's counterproductive
+	# if we use it and include it in CORE/perl.h ... Perl builds just
+	# fine with glibc and locale.h only.
+	# However, the darwin prefix people have no locale.h ...
+	use elibc_glibc && myconf -Ui_xlocale
+
+	# This flag makes compiling crash in interesting ways
+	filter-flags "-malign-double"
+
+	# Generic LTO broken since 5.28, triggers EUMM failures
+	filter-lto
+
+	# On musl we dont want to use largefile *64 types, since 1) normal
+	# types are 64bit / largefile anyway and 2) the *64 types are going
+	# away in 1.2.4... bug #911233
+	use elibc_musl && myconf -Ud_off64_t
+
+	use sparc && myconf -Ud_longdbl
+
+	# This urgently needs debugging - on m68k, miniperl crashes during
+	# build otherwise..
+	use m68k && append-ldflags -Wl,-z,norelro
+
+	export BUILD_BZIP2=0
+	export BZIP2_INCLUDE=${EROOT}/usr/include
+	export BZIP2_LIB=${EROOT}/usr/$(get_libdir)
+
+	export BUILD_ZLIB=False
+	export ZLIB_INCLUDE=${EROOT}/usr/include
+	export ZLIB_LIB=${EROOT}/usr/$(get_libdir)
+
+	# allow either gdbm to provide ndbm (in <gdbm/ndbm.h>) or db1
+	myndbm='U'
+	mygdbm='U'
+	mydb='U'
+	if use gdbm ; then
+		mygdbm='D'
+		if use berkdb ; then
+			myndbm='D'
+		fi
+	fi
+	if use berkdb ; then
+		mydb='D'
+		has_version '=sys-libs/db-1*' && myndbm='D'
+	fi
+
+	myconf "-${myndbm}i_ndbm" "-${mygdbm}i_gdbm" "-${mydb}i_db"
+
+	if use alpha && [[ "$(tc-getCC)" = "ccc" ]] ; then
+		ewarn "Perl will not be built with berkdb support, use gcc if you needed it..."
+		myconf -Ui_db -Ui_ndbm
+	fi
+
+	use perl_features_ithreads && myconf -Dusethreads
+
+	use perl_features_quadmath && myconf -Dusequadmath
+
+	if use perl_features_debug ; then
+		append-cflags "-g"
+		myconf -DDEBUGGING
+	elif [[ ${CFLAGS} == *-g* ]] ; then
+		myconf -DDEBUGGING=-g
+	else
+		myconf -DDEBUGGING=none
+	fi
+
+	# modifying 'optimize' prevents cross configure script from appending required flags
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		append-cflags "-fwrapv"
+
+		# bug #913171
+		export HOSTCFLAGS="${CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD} -D_GNU_SOURCE"
+	fi
+
+	# bug #877659, bug #821577
+	append-cflags -fno-strict-aliasing
+
+	# Autodiscover all old version directories, some of them will even be newer
+	# if you downgrade
+	if [[ -z ${PERL_OLDVERSEN} ]]; then
+		PERL_OLDVERSEN="$( find_candidate_inc_versions )"
+	fi
+
+	# Fixup versions, removing self match, fixing order and dupes
+	PERL_OLDVERSEN="$( sanitize_inc_versions ${PERL_OLDVERSEN} )"
+
+	# Experts who want a "Pure" install can set PERL_OLDVERSEN to an empty string
+	if [[ -n "${PERL_OLDVERSEN// }" ]]; then
+		local inclist="$( versions_to_inclist ${PERL_OLDVERSEN} )"
+		einfo "This version of perl may partially support modules previously"
+		einfo "installed in any of the following paths:"
+		for incpath in ${inclist}; do
+			[[ -e "${EROOT}${VENDOR_BASE}/${incpath}" ]] && einfo " ${EROOT}${VENDOR_BASE}/${incpath}"
+			[[ -e "${EROOT}${PRIV_BASE}/${incpath}"   ]] && einfo " ${EROOT}${PRIV_BASE}/${incpath}"
+			[[ -e "${EROOT}${SITE_BASE}/${incpath}"   ]] && einfo " ${EROOT}${SITE_BASE}/${incpath}"
+		done
+		einfo "This is a temporary measure and you should aim to cleanup these paths"
+		einfo "via world updates and perl-cleaner"
+		# myconf -Dinc_version_list="${inclist}"
+		myconf -Dgentoolibdirs="$( versions_to_gentoolibdirs ${PERL_OLDVERSEN} )"
+	fi
+
+	[[ ${ELIBC} == "FreeBSD" ]] && myconf "-Dlibc=/usr/$(get_libdir)/libc.a"
+
+	# Make sure we can do the final link #523730, need to set deployment
+	# target to override hardcoded 10.3 which breaks on modern OSX
+	[[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] && \
+		myconf "-Dld=env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=${MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET} $(tc-getCC)"
+
+	# Older macOS with non-Apple GCC chokes on inline in system headers
+	# using c89 mode as injected by cflags.SH, in addition, we override
+	# cflags, so we loose PERL_DARWIN which enables compat code that
+	# apparently on more recent macOS releases is no longer necessary
+	[[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* && ${CHOST##*darwin} -le 9 ]] && tc-is-gcc && \
+		append-cflags -Dinline=__inline__ -DPERL_DARWIN
+
+	# Prefix: the host system needs not to follow Gentoo multilib stuff, and in
+	# Prefix itself we don't do multilib either, so make sure perl can find
+	# something compatible.
+	if use prefix ; then
+		# Set a hook to check for each detected library whether it actually works.
+		export libscheck="
+			( echo 'main(){}' > '${T}'/conftest.c &&
+				$(tc-getCC) -o '${T}'/conftest '${T}'/conftest.c -l\$thislib >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+			) || xxx=/dev/null"
+
+		# Use all host paths that might contain useful stuff, the hook above will filter out bad choices.
+		local paths="/lib/*-linux-gnu /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu /lib64 /lib/64 /usr/lib64 /usr/lib/64 /lib32 /usr/lib32 /lib /usr/lib"
+		myconf "-Dlibpth=${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir) ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir) ${paths}"
+	elif [[ $(get_libdir) != "lib" ]] ; then
+		# We need to use " and not ', as the written config.sh use ' ...
+		myconf "-Dlibpth=/usr/local/$(get_libdir) /$(get_libdir) /usr/$(get_libdir)"
+	fi
+
+	# don't try building ODBM, bug #354453
+	disabled_extensions="ODBM_File"
+
+	if ! use gdbm ; then
+		# workaround for bug #157774: don't try building GDBM related stuff with USE="-gdbm"
+		disabled_extensions="${disabled_extensions} GDBM_File NDBM_File"
+	fi
+
+	myconf -Dnoextensions="${disabled_extensions}"
+
+	[[ "${PV##*.}" == "9999" ]] && myconf -Dusedevel -Uversiononly
+
+	[[ -n "${EXTRA_ECONF}" ]] && ewarn During Perl build, EXTRA_ECONF=${EXTRA_ECONF}
+	# allow fiddling via EXTRA_ECONF, bug 558070
+	eval "local -a EXTRA_ECONF=(${EXTRA_ECONF})"
+
+	# setting -Dld= to tc-getLD breaks perl and all perl things
+	# https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17791#issuecomment-630145202
+	myconf \
+		-Duseshrplib \
+		-Darchname="${myarch}" \
+		-Dcc="$(tc-getCC)" \
+		-Dar="$(tc-getAR)" \
+		-Dnm="$(tc-getNM)" \
+		-Dcpp="$(tc-getCPP)" \
+		-Dranlib="$(tc-getRANLIB)" \
+		-Accflags="${CFLAGS} -DNO_PERL_RAND_SEED" \
+		-Doptimize="${CFLAGS}" \
+		-Dldflags="${LDFLAGS}" \
+		-Dprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr' \
+		-Dsiteprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr/local' \
+		-Dvendorprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr' \
+		-Dscriptdir="${EPREFIX}"'/usr/bin' \
+		-Dprivlib="${EPREFIX}${PRIV_LIB}" \
+		-Darchlib="${EPREFIX}${ARCH_LIB}" \
+		-Dsitelib="${EPREFIX}${SITE_LIB}" \
+		-Dsitearch="${EPREFIX}${SITE_ARCH}" \
+		-Dvendorlib="${EPREFIX}${VENDOR_LIB}" \
+		-Dvendorarch="${EPREFIX}${VENDOR_ARCH}" \
+		-Dman1dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man1 \
+		-Dman3dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man3 \
+		-Dsiteman1dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/local/man/man1 \
+		-Dsiteman3dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/local/man/man3 \
+		-Dvendorman1dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man1 \
+		-Dvendorman3dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man3 \
+		-Dman1ext='1' \
+		-Dman3ext='3pm' \
+		-Dlibperl="${LIBPERL}" \
+		-Dlocincpth="${EPREFIX}"'/usr/include ' \
+		-Dglibpth="${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir) ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)"' ' \
+		-Duselargefiles \
+		-Dd_semctl_semun \
+		-Dcf_by='Gentoo' \
+		-Dmyhostname='localhost' \
+		-Dperladmin='root@localhost' \
+		-Ud_csh \
+		-Dsh="${EPREFIX}"/bin/sh \
+		-Dtargetsh="${EPREFIX}"/bin/sh \
+		-Uusenm \
+		"${EXTRA_ECONF[@]}"
+
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		./configure \
+			--target="${CHOST}" \
+			--build="${CBUILD}" \
+			-Dinstallprefix='' \
+			-Dinstallusrbinperl='undef' \
+			-Dusevendorprefix='define' \
+			"${myconf[@]}" \
+			|| die "Unable to configure"
+	else
+		sh Configure \
+			-des \
+			-Dinstallprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr' \
+			-Dinstallusrbinperl='n' \
+			"${myconf[@]}" \
+			|| die "Unable to configure"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	export NO_GENTOO_NETWORK_TESTS=1;
+	export GENTOO_ASSUME_SANDBOXED="${GENTOO_ASSUME_SANDBOXED:-1}"
+	export GENTOO_NO_PORTING_TESTS="${GENTOO_NO_PORTING_TESTS:-1}"
+	if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
+		ewarn "Test fails with a sandbox error (#328793) if run as root. Skipping tests..."
+		return 0
+	fi
+	TEST_JOBS="$(makeopts_jobs)" make test_harness || die "test failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	local i
+	local coredir="${ARCH_LIB}/CORE"
+
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	rm -f "${ED}/usr/bin/perl${MY_PV}"
+	ln -s perl "${ED}"/usr/bin/perl${MY_PV} || die
+
+	if ! tc-is-static-only ; then
+		dolib.so "${ED}"${coredir}/${LIBPERL}
+		rm -f "${ED}"${coredir}/${LIBPERL}
+		ln -sf ${LIBPERL} "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libperl$(get_libname ${SHORT_PV}) || die
+		ln -sf ${LIBPERL} "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libperl$(get_libname) || die
+
+		ln -sf ../../../../${LIBPERL} "${ED}"${coredir}/${LIBPERL} || die
+		ln -sf ../../../../${LIBPERL} "${ED}"${coredir}/libperl$(get_libname ${SHORT_PV}) || die
+		ln -sf ../../../../${LIBPERL} "${ED}"${coredir}/libperl$(get_libname) || die
+	fi
+
+	rm -rf "${ED}"/usr/share/man/man3 || die "Unable to remove module man pages"
+
+	# This removes ${D} from Config.pm
+	for i in $(find "${D}" -iname "Config.pm" ) ; do
+		einfo "Removing ${D} from ${i}..."
+		sed -i -e "s:${D}::" "${i}" || die "Sed failed"
+	done
+
+	dodoc Changes* README AUTHORS
+
+	if use doc ; then
+		# HTML Documentation
+		# We expect errors, warnings, and such with the following.
+
+		dodir /usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
+		LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./perl installhtml \
+			--podroot='.' \
+			--podpath='lib:ext:pod:vms' \
+			--recurse \
+			--htmldir="${ED}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html"
+	fi
+
+	[[ -d ${ED}/usr/local ]] && rm -r "${ED}"/usr/local
+
+	dual_scripts
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	check_rebuild
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	dual_scripts
+
+	if [[ -z "${ROOT}" ]] ; then
+		local INC DIR file
+		INC=$(perl -e 'for $line (@INC) { next if $line eq "."; next if $line =~ m/'${SHORT_PV}'|etc|local|perl$/; print "$line\n" }')
+		einfo "Removing old .ph files"
+		for DIR in ${INC} ; do
+			if [[ -d "${DIR}" ]] ; then
+				for file in $(find "${DIR}" -name "*.ph" -type f ) ; do
+					rm -f "${file}"
+					einfo "<< ${file}"
+				done
+			fi
+		done
+		# Silently remove the now empty dirs
+		for DIR in ${INC} ; do
+			if [[ -d "${DIR}" ]] ; then
+				find "${DIR}" -depth -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r rmdir &> /dev/null
+			fi
+		done
+
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	dual_scripts
+}
diff --git a/profiles/base/make.defaults b/profiles/base/make.defaults
index 7ed31693ca82..51a5b5cdbb46 100644
--- a/profiles/base/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/base/make.defaults
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ USE_EXPAND_VALUES_KERNEL="Darwin linux SunOS"
 
 # Env vars to expand into USE vars.  Modifying this requires prior
 # discussion on gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org.
-USE_EXPAND="ABI_MIPS ABI_S390 ABI_X86 ADA_TARGET ALSA_CARDS AMDGPU_TARGETS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CALLIGRA_FEATURES CAMERAS COLLECTD_PLUGINS CPU_FLAGS_ARM CPU_FLAGS_PPC CPU_FLAGS_X86 CURL_SSL ELIBC FFTOOLS GPSD_PROTOCOLS GRUB_PLATFORMS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL L10N LCD_DEVICES LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS LLVM_SLOT LLVM_TARGETS LUA_SINGLE_TARGET LUA_TARGETS MONKEYD_PLUGINS NGINX_MODULES_HTTP NGINX_MODULES_MAIL NGINX_MODULES_STREAM OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION OPENMPI_FABRICS OPENMPI_OFED_FEATURES OPENMPI_RM PHP_TARGETS POSTGRES_TARGETS PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET PYTHON_TARGETS QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS QEMU_USER_TARGETS RUBY_TARGETS SANE_BACKENDS UWSGI_PLUGINS VIDEO_CARDS VOICEMAIL_STORAGE XTABLES_ADDONS"
+USE_EXPAND="ABI_MIPS ABI_S390 ABI_X86 ADA_TARGET ALSA_CARDS AMDGPU_TARGETS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CALLIGRA_FEATURES CAMERAS COLLECTD_PLUGINS CPU_FLAGS_ARM CPU_FLAGS_PPC CPU_FLAGS_X86 CURL_SSL ELIBC FFTOOLS GPSD_PROTOCOLS GRUB_PLATFORMS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL L10N LCD_DEVICES LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS LLVM_SLOT LLVM_TARGETS LUA_SINGLE_TARGET LUA_TARGETS MONKEYD_PLUGINS NGINX_MODULES_HTTP NGINX_MODULES_MAIL NGINX_MODULES_STREAM OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION OPENMPI_FABRICS OPENMPI_OFED_FEATURES OPENMPI_RM PERL_FEATURES PHP_TARGETS POSTGRES_TARGETS PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET PYTHON_TARGETS QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS QEMU_USER_TARGETS RUBY_TARGETS SANE_BACKENDS UWSGI_PLUGINS VIDEO_CARDS VOICEMAIL_STORAGE XTABLES_ADDONS"
 
 # USE_EXPAND variables whose contents are not shown in package manager
 # output. Changes need discussion on gentoo-dev.
diff --git a/profiles/desc/perl_features.desc b/profiles/desc/perl_features.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..22d84ca5b407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/profiles/desc/perl_features.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Copyright 2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# This file contains descriptions of PERL_FEATURES USE_EXPAND flags.
+
+# Keep it sorted.
+debug - PERL_FEATURES setting enabling internal debug support in Perl
+ithreads - PERL_FEATURES setting enabling interpreter level threads, has some compatibility problems
+quadmath - PERL_FEATURES setting enabling 128bit floating point arithmetic via libquadmath
-- 
2.43.2