[gentoo-user] Re: emerge dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 failed

[Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de>]

On 2011-03-15 18:25:31 +0100, walt said:

> On 03/15/2011 08:05 AM, Philipp Kraus wrote:
>> On 2011-03-15 15:50:44 +0100, walt said:
>> 
>>> On 03/15/2011 03:14 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I've try to emerge my world target new, but the dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 
>>>> failes. I've found on the gentoo pages the hint to sync the portage 
>>>> tree again, but that does not solve the problem.
>>>> 
>>>> The messages during emerge are:
>>>> 
>>>> IO.xs: In function 'XS_IO__File_new_tmpfile':
>>>> IO.xs:229: warning: value computed is not used
>>>> IO.xs: In function 'XS_IO__Poll__poll':
>>>> IO.xs:249: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 
>>>> 'struct pollfd'
>>>> IO.xs:253: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>>>> IO.xs:253: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>>>> IO.xs:255: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>>>> IO.xs:255: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>>>> IO.xs:257: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>>>> IO.xs:257: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>>>> IO.xs:259: warning: implicit declaration of function 'poll'
>>>> IO.xs:261: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>>>> IO.xs:261: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>>>> IO.xs:262: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct pollfd'
>>>> IO.xs:262: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>>>> make[1]: *** [IO.o] Error 1
>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory 
>>>> `/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.12.3/work/perl-5.12.3/dist/IO'
>>>> Unsuccessful make(dist/IO): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 449.
>>>> make: *** [lib/auto/IO/IO.so] Error 25
>>>> 
>>>> I've try to mask the 5.12.3 package to a previous version, but the same 
>>>> problemes are shown. Now I've have a "hanging" portage. Perl is needed 
>>>> for my eg. LDAP... Does anyone have any idea to solve the error?
>>> 
>>> You might try running perl-cleaner --modules (sys-apps/perl-cleaner) in
>>> case your existing perl environment is broken.
>> 
>> perl-cleaner shows:
>> NO PERL INSTALLED! (at least not in your path)
> 
> I assumed you're trying to upgrade perl from an older version, but you
> are not, I guess.  (I've never known anyone who didn't have perl already ;)
> 
> I just finished re-installing perl-5.12.3 on two machines with no trouble,
> so there is something broken on your machine, but what?
> 
> I'm wondering if the real error occurs somewhere before the errors you
> showed us, maybe dozens or even hundreds of lines earlier.
> 
> Do you have sys-libs/libperl-5.10.1?  Maybe try reemerging that package
> first.

The emerging of the libperl crashs also with the same message.

Phil