On Sunday 05 April 2015 10:50:53 I wrote: > Today's routine update included dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 and two perl > virtuals. Since emerging those portage has stopped working: perl-cleaner > gives it a list of 71 packages to emerge but portage does nothing with > them - it just exits silently. Then perl-cleaner lists some hundreds of > files that it can't do anything with. > > What's going on here? > > I've restored from last week's backup and added the offending perl > packages to package.mask, but is that the right thing to do?
For the record, my problem has now been fixed, together with some others I hadn't reported here. It was a combination of bad CFLAGS (and CXXFLAGS) and too ambitious MAKEOPTS. Specifically, I recommend that any advice to set -march=corei7 on an i5 system should be firmly resisted. Thanks to those who took an interest and offered help. -- Rgds Peter
