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

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