perl-5.8.0-r9 won't compile!

[elmie]

emerge perl

everything went fine, until it starts to compile! and this was the error message!

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If you compile perl5 on a different machine or from a different object
directory, copy the Policy.sh file from this object directory to the
new one before you run Configure -- this will help you with most of
the policy defaults.

`sh cflags "optimize='-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe'" miniperlmain.o` miniperlmain.c
CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe -Wall
`sh cflags "optimize='-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe'" perl.o` perl.c
CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe -Wall
`sh cflags "optimize='-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe'" gv.o` gv.c
CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe -Wall
make: *** No rule to make target `toke.c', needed by `toke.o'. Stop.

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r9 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 267, Exitcode 2
!!! Unable to make
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so what now? is there some secrete way to emerge perl? do I have to use special flags?

[pjp]

I think this version of perl has had some other threads covering emerge problems. You might see any of those help (Portage & Programming forum).


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[rac]

toke.c should exist without having to be made. Any chance you're running out of disk space in the portage build directory?
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[Jaxom]

I get almost the exact same thing.

<snippit>
p.h opcode.h opnames.h patchlevel.h perl.h perlio.h perlvars.h perly.h pp.h pp_proto.h proto.h regexp.h scope.h sv.h thrdvar.h thread.h unixish.h utf8.h util.h warnings.h -o av
gcc: compilation of header file requested
gcc: compilation of header file requested
gcc: compilation of header file requested
</snippit>

There's about 50 lines of the gcc: .... line

then I get

make: *** [av] Error 1

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r9 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 267, Exitcode 2
!!! Unable to make

Plenty of drive space available, and I just updated portage and synced. I try to install perl (since it was taken out by the original upgrade attempt) and this is what I get.
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