When trying to do my regular emerge today I ran into minor snag. When emerge tried to build dev-perl\/IO-Socket-INET6-2.56 emerge failed with the following error:<\/p>\n
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Can't locate Module\/Build.pm in @INC (@INC contains: \/etc\/perl \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/vendor_perl\/5.8.8\/i686-linux \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/vendor_perl\/5.8.8 \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/vendor_perl \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/site_perl\/5.8.8\/i686-linux \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/site_perl\/5.8.8 \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/site_perl \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/5.8.8\/i686-linux \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/5.8.8 \/usr\/local\/lib\/site_perl .) at Build.PL line 3.
\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Build.PL line 3.<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\nI did some searching and didn’t come across anything directly related to IO-Socket-INET6, but I did see references to other Perl libraries failing to build with the same error, and remark in one of the threads that the only work-around was to emerge the Perl Build module. So, I did an
emerge Module-Build<\/code> and followed it up with my usualemerge -auvD world<\/code> and IO-Socket-INET6 built just fine.<\/p>\nIt seems that there may be a few Perl libraries in Portage that are relying on the Build module but aren’t adding it as a requirement in their ebuild. If you have lots of Perl libraries installed that you manage via Portage you may want to save yourself some hassle and emerge Module-Build now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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