Perl problem stops install

mukwuknuk · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:28 am Post subject: Perl problem stops install

I'm attempting a stage-2 install (first time installing gentoo) starting with a small, "live", "basic" CD image I downloaded and burned today. Installng on a machine about 6-7 years old, I think it's a Pentium Pro, only 8 GB HD, and I believe 128K RAM (box freshly wiped).

Anyway I downloaded and untarred the Stage 2 tarball, entered the chroot environment, did "emerge sync" OK (I may be skipping a step or two, but just telling you where I was) then did "emerge -p -u system" which went OK, then it died in the step that should take a few hours: emerge -u system. It says "Perl is not found".

If this problem is covered in a FAQ somewhere, feel free to flame me to a cinder, just tell me how to find the FAQ because I did look around before posting but I wasn't sure I was in the right place.... documentation here is superb, really first rate, but I only found the happy-path stuff, not the "film noir" info.

I actually know how to program in Perl, but I don't know how to give Perl to gentoo during the install, or why it would be missing in the first place. Any help out there? Thanks for reading a too-long post (just trying to provide a lot of background information).

nightcanton · Apprentice Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 249

Which program is emerging when you it asks for Perl?

mukwuknuk · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks for responding! I believe the answer is "autoconf".
Here's the error:

cdimage / # emerge -u system
Calculating system dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 67) sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) autoconf-2.57.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking autoconf-2.57.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/autoconf-2.57-r1/work
>>> Unpacking autoconf-2.13.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/autoconf-2.57-r1/work
* Applying autoconf-2.13-configure-gentroo.diff...
* Applying autoconf-2.13-configure.in-gentroo.diff...
* Applying autoconf-2.57-infopage-namechange.patch...
>>> Source unpacked.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is same... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
checking for gm4... no
checking for gnum4... no
checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4
checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes
checking for perl... no
configure error: perl is not found

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 50, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

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I hope there are no typos above -- I had to transpose the entire thing by hand.

Thanks again for responding. I was beginning to think I would get no help, and I very much want to try out gentoo. I suppose everyone else in the the gentoo world is smart enough to handle this problem on their own, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Best regards,
....Mukwuknuk

mukwuknuk · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject:

Moderator or sys-op or whomever, feel free to move this thread to the duplicate section, since a matching thread has been brought to my attention:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=102902&highlight=perl+autoconf

However, the solution offered there differs from mine: I did "emerge perl" when the problem occurred, re-started "emerge system" and the install is going much better.
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OhSh33t · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:57 am Post subject:

mukwuknuk · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

isolti · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 10

emerge perl solved same problem here.
Imre