Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:51:20 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: 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 They aren't the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread YoYo Siska
Zac Medico wrote: afterwards that I could have accomplished the same by: USE=*- emerge -v perl More drastic than my solution but it could be necessary. I've seen USE=-* more commonly but maybe they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does basically the same thing. no USE=-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
YoYo Siska wrote: Zac Medico wrote: More drastic than my solution but it could be necessary. I've seen USE=-* more commonly but maybe they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does basically the same thing. no USE=-* skips all optional dependencies (depending on a use flag) --nodeps

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread YoYo Siska
Zac Medico wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: Zac Medico wrote: More drastic than my solution but it could be necessary. I've seen USE=-* more commonly but maybe they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does basically the same thing. no USE=-* skips all optional dependencies (depending on a use

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
YoYo Siska wrote: Zac Medico wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: Zac Medico wrote: More drastic than my solution but it could be necessary. I've seen USE=-* more commonly but maybe they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does basically the same thing. no USE=-* skips all optional

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
Zac Medico wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: why should it handle USE flags in any way? it just tels portage not to emerge the dependencie, whatever they are ( when added by use flags..) that means USE=alsa emerge --nodeps mplayer would (try to) compile mplayer _with_ alsa support but in the case

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread YoYo Siska
Zac Medico wrote: Zac Medico wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: why should it handle USE flags in any way? it just tels portage not to emerge the dependencie, whatever they are ( when added by use flags..) that means USE=alsa emerge --nodeps mplayer would (try to) compile mplayer _with_ alsa support

[gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Colin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Ted Ozolins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've been thinking about it for a while, if OpenSSH needs Perl, shouldn't Perl be built before OpenSSH? This seems like an ebuild bug to me. openssh depends on autoconf which depends on perl. Apparently you have autoconf but not perl. Is