[SOLVED] Inablity to emerge help2man prevents world update

[frank56]

I saw a similar problem to mine, but I could not follow it. When I try an emerge --update --deep --with-deps=y --newuse world I get the following message when I

cat /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/help2man-1.40.5/work/help2man-1.40.5/config.log

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = frank
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 3.0.6-gentoo
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #5 SMP Thu Dec 29 01:47:55 PST 2011

/usr/bin/uname -p = Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/4
PATH: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /opt/bin
PATH: /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1771: checking for perl
configure:1776: ...version 5.008 required
configure:1785: trying perl
found version 5.012
configure:1794: result: perl
configure:1804: checking for module Locale::gettext
Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/i686-linux-debug /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4/i686-linux-debug /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.4/i686-linux-debug /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.4 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
configure:1816: result: no
configure:1821: checking for msgfmt
configure:1839: found /usr/bin/msgfmt
configure:1851: result: /usr/bin/msgfmt
configure:1868: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
configure:1884: found /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
configure:1895: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
configure:2164: checking for C compiler version
configure:2173: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --version >&5
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (Gentoo 4.5.3-r1 p1.0, pie-0.4.5) 4.5.3
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2184: $? = 0
configure:2173: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/lto-wrapper
Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r1/work/gcc-4.5.3/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/include/g++-v4 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --without-ppl --without-cloog --disable-lto --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --disable-multilib --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/python --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --with-arch=i686 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-targets=all --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.5.3-r1 p1.0, pie-0.4.5'
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.5.3 (Gentoo 4.5.3-r1 p1.0, pie-0.4.5) 
configure:2184: $? = 0
configure:2173: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -V >&5
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2184: $? = 1
configure:2173: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -qversion >&5
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: unrecognized option '-qversion'
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: no input files
configure:2184: $? = 1
configure:2204: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2226: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c  >&5
configure:2230: $? = 0
configure:2278: result: yes
configure:2281: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2283: result: a.out
configure:2289: checking for suffix of executables
configure:2296: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c  >&5
configure:2300: $? = 0
configure:2322: result: 
configure:2344: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:2352: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c  >&5
configure:2356: $? = 0
configure:2363: ./conftest
configure:2367: $? = 0
configure:2382: result: no
configure:2387: checking for suffix of object files
configure:2409: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  conftest.c >&5
configure:2413: $? = 0
configure:2434: result: o
configure:2438: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:2457: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  conftest.c >&5
configure:2457: $? = 0
configure:2466: result: yes
configure:2475: checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g
configure:2495: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -g  conftest.c >&5
configure:2495: $? = 0
configure:2536: result: yes
configure:2553: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:2617: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -c -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  conftest.c >&5
configure:2617: $? = 0
configure:2630: result: none needed
configure:2651: checking for library containing dlsym
configure:2682: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c  >&5
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/help2man-1.40.5/temp/ccQ5XL29.o: In function `main':
conftest.c:(.text+0x7): undefined reference to `dlsym'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2682: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char dlsym ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return dlsym ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2682: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c -ldl   >&5
configure:2682: $? = 0
configure:2699: result: -ldl
configure:2707: checking for library containing bindtextdomain
configure:2738: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c -ldl  >&5
configure:2738: $? = 0
configure:2755: result: none required
configure:2788: error: perl module Locale::gettext required

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu=yes
ac_cv_enable_nls=yes
ac_cv_env_CC_set=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=set
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='-O2 -march=i686 -pipe'
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=set
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value='-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed'
ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=set
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=i686-pc-linux-gnu
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=set
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=i686-pc-linux-gnu
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_module_Locale__gettext=no
ac_cv_objext=o
ac_cv_path_MSGFMT=/usr/bin/msgfmt
ac_cv_prog_CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
ac_cv_prog_PERL=perl
ac_cv_prog_cc_c89=
ac_cv_prog_cc_g=yes
ac_cv_search_bindtextdomain='none required'
ac_cv_search_dlsym=-ldl

## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##

CC='i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'
CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i686 -pipe'
CPPFLAGS=''
DEFS=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EXEEXT=''
INSTALL_DATA=''
INSTALL_INFO=''
INSTALL_PROGRAM=''
INSTALL_SCRIPT=''
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed'
LIBOBJS=''
LIBS='-ldl '
LTLIBOBJS=''
MAKEINFO=''
MSGFMT='/usr/bin/msgfmt'
OBJEXT='o'
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME=''
PACKAGE_STRING=''
PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
PACKAGE_URL=''
PACKAGE_VERSION=''
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
PERL='perl'
SHELL='/bin/sh'
ac_ct_CC=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build_alias='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
datadir='/usr/share'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}'
dvidir='${docdir}'
exec_prefix='NONE'
extra_extract_args=''
extra_make_all=''
extra_make_install=''
host_alias='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
htmldir='${docdir}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='/usr/share/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='/var/lib'
mandir='/usr/share/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
pdfdir='${docdir}'
prefix='/usr'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='/etc'
target_alias=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_URL ""

configure: exit 1

I copied this from the above which makes me think I have the wrong perl version.

configure:1771: checking for perl
configure:1776: ...version 5.008 required
configure:1785: trying perl
found version 5.012
configure:1794: result: perl
configure:1804: checking for module Locale::gettext

Am I on the right track?

Solved. This link helped me solved the problem, though the different comments had me confused or reluctant to try any of the suggestions. Here is the link

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313901.html

I first reemergd gettext and than followed up with emerging help2man. Update is presently updating.