On Sun, 29 May 2016 12:33:55 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There's been another thread a week ago which mentioned a > > sys-devel/make-4.2 bug and the recommendation was to emerge perl > > with MAKEOPTS=-j1. Did you try this? > > It's not perl failing to build, it's portage claiming it can't find a > clean upgrade path to offer. The merge doesn't start as the dep graph > resolution never completes, so MAKEOPTS isn't even in the picture yet. I found that --with-bdeps=y fixed some problems.