Colin wrote: > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl 5." Pretending and > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during > the install. Attempting to "emerge -v perl" attempts to emerge > svgalib as well (since I haven't built the system), which fails saying > that the kernel has not been configured yet. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Colin > I ran into the same glitch on a new system. The only way I was able to get around that was to blank out my USE= in /etc/make.conf. I realized afterwards that I could have accomplished the same by:
USE="*-" emerge -v perl Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list