On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote: >>> Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I >>> have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list >>> where perl 5.26 was going to have problems -- maybe until it is >>> stabilized -- but if I mask it off, I get the following: >> >> Unmask the latest perl and update world with the old profile >> >> This will go smoothly as the perl team did an excellent job making sure >> everything perl-ish in the tree works in concert with everything else. >> However I do recall that trying to do it with a partial world update >> didn't work - too many affected packages, so trying just perl + deps did >> not work. Rather do a normal world update. >> >> Once done, then switch your profile to 17.0 and do the giant emerge -e >> world that requires. >> >> tl;dr >> >> the news message about perl might make you think the sky will fall on >> your head and all your kittens will die, this is actually not true. >> >> The v5.26 updates mostly had to do with perl's search path for perl >> modules. Just like how we've frowned on having "." in the shell PATH for >> decades, perl now implemented something like that for modules too. The >> possible problem anticipated is that modules would now break if a >> modules could not find another module it needs. But this really only >> applied to modules outside the perl distribution itself. And the Gentoo >> perl team dealt with all that already >> >> It's widely discussed all over the internet in all the usual places, you >> are only affected if one of more of these applies: >> >> - you write perl modules yourself (solution: update your own code) >> - you use many ancient cpan modules that no-one touched for yonks >> (solution: maybe use currently supported modules instead) >> - you heavily rely on a third party perl app that might not have been >> updated - musicbrainz and radiator come to mind as examples (solution: >> harass your app vendor) >> >> -- >> Alan McKinnon >> alan.mckin...@gmail.com >> >> > > So, I have already switched to the new profile, should I switch back, > do a regular world update, or do the world update with the new profile > -- I am compiling gcc as I write, although its not finished yet, I can > interrupt it if necessary. >
No, I don't think you should revert the profile change. I understood from your mail than you had not done that yet, and typed accordingly. I think Michael is on the right track with backtrack - set it to something very high like 1000, see if that gets to a solution. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
