Stroller wrote: > > I had a nightmare with perl recently, too. Did you check there are no perl > packages listed in your world file?
Yes. "grep perl /var/lib/portage/world" doesn't find anything. > I also ran `sudo perl-cleaner --reallyall` at one point. Trying this leads to: * Removing perl-core packages from world file * emerge --deselect perl-core/Encode perl-core/File-Temp >>> No matching atoms found in "world" favorites file... * Updating installed Perl virtuals * emerge -u1 virtual/perl-Archive-Tar virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML virtual/perl-Carp virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib virtual/perl-DB_File virtual/perl-Data-Dumper virtual/perl-Digest virtual/perl-Digest-MD5 virtual/perl-Digest-SHA virtual/perl-Encode virtual/perl-Exporter virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS virtual/perl-File-Path virtual/perl-File-Spec virtual/perl-File-Temp virtual/perl-Getopt-Long virtual/perl-IO virtual/perl-IO-Compress virtual/perl-IO-Zlib virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd virtual/perl-JSON-PP virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext virtual/perl-MIME-Base64 virtual/perl-Module-Metadata virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta virtual/perl-Perl-OSType virtual/perl-Pod-Parser virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils virtual/perl-Storable virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog virtual/perl-Test-Harness virtual/perl-Test-Simple virtual/perl-Text-ParseWords virtual/perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap virtual/perl-Time-HiRes virtual/perl-Time-Local virtual/perl-XSLoader virtual/perl-if virtual/perl-libnet virtual/perl-parent virtual/perl-version Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. [...some unimportant messages...] * Locating packages for an update * Locating ebuilds linked against libperl * Adding to list: sys-apps/texinfo:0 * Adding to list: app-editors/vim:0 * Adding to list: mail-filter/spamassassin:0 * Adding to list: net-analyzer/net-snmp:0 * Adding to list: net-analyzer/rrdtool:0 * Adding to list: net-analyzer/nagios-core:0 * Adding to list: perl-core/File-Temp:0 * virtual/perl-File-Temp:0 * Adding to list: perl-core/Encode:0 * virtual/perl-Encode:0 * Adding to list: dev-perl/[...many, many, packages...] * Adding to list: net-nds/openldap:0 * Adding to list: media-gfx/graphite2:0 * Adding to list: media-gfx/graphviz:0 * Adding to list: dev-vcs/subversion:0 * Adding to list: dev-vcs/git:0 * Adding to list: net-print/cups-filters:0 * emerge -v1 --backtrack=200 [...all of the above, with a total of 118 packages...] [...some hours later...] >>> Emerging (91 of 118) dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1::gentoo * GDTextUtil-0.86.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking GDTextUtil-0.86.tar.gz to >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1/work >>> Preparing source in >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1/work/GDTextUtil-0.86 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1/work/GDTextUtil-0.86 ... * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker * perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLMAN3DIR=none DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1/image/ GD.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0x7bc0000, needed 0x7cc0000) * ERROR: dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.860.0-r1::gentoo failed (configure phase): * Unable to build! So it's the same thing again... -Matt