Perl upgrade disruption

[vervain]

Hello all,

On a recent '--update system' perl was upgraded to 5.8. Now mod_perl is broken becuase @INC no longer includes /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux

I have also noticed that there are a number of structures in the /usr/lib area for perl that I would not expect... eg:
/usr/lib/site_perl

I have always seen this under:
/usr/lib/perlX/site_perl or even:
/usr/lib/perlX/X.x.x/site_perl

Which in my opinion is much tidier.

Can anyone suggest a way to clean all of this up? I know that perl installations (mod_perl esp) can get themselves twisted up but in this case I have only ever used emerge to handle things but the results all seem a little odd.

For what it's worth:
magpie site_perl # perl -e 'for (@INC) { print "$_\n"; }'
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl

and mod_perl @INC:
/var/tmp/portage/mod_perl-1.27-r1/image/usr/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
.
/etc/apache/
/etc/apache/lib/perl

Cheers for any help.

Verv

[iapetus]

Try this. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28726&highlight=perl+emerge+inc

Gentoo doesn't seem to handle upgrading perl very well, I've had problems several times. It is supposedly fixed.... but I can't find the posting.