Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken? [SOLVED]

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday 05 April 2015 10:50:53 I wrote:

> Today's routine update included dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 and two perl
> virtuals. Since emerging those portage has stopped working: perl-cleaner
> gives it a list of 71 packages to emerge but portage does nothing with
> them - it just exits silently. Then perl-cleaner lists some hundreds of
> files that it can't do anything with.
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> I've restored from last week's backup and added the offending perl
> packages to package.mask, but is that the right thing to do?

For the record, my problem has now been fixed, together with some others I 
hadn't reported here. It was a combination of bad CFLAGS (and CXXFLAGS) and 
too ambitious MAKEOPTS.

Specifically, I recommend that any advice to set -march=corei7 on an i5 
system should be firmly resisted.

Thanks to those who took an interest and offered help.

-- 
Rgds
Peter