Re: which brnach?

Nate Riffe <[email protected]> writes:

> I cannot believe Rob Nichols said this on the ENTARNET:
> > I'd like to build research, or a derivative, on a gentoo system.  (Can
> > do chroot, but thought I'd see if it will build on gentoo.)  Tried the
> > research branch and ran into some trouble configuring perl.  Before
> > diving in and figuring out what the problem is, I wanted to see what
> > branch people would suggest?
> 
> I don't know of any branch that is known to successfully build on
> gentoo, but research is probably the closest.  The trouble you ran
> into with perl is mostly a product of perl's godaweful configure
> script.  We generally try to avoid messing with perl any more than we
> have to, although the package is probably due for an upgrade.  If
> you'd like to try your hand, I'd start with that.

Thanks.  I've looked at the perl configure before and have since tried
to avoided it.  I'll see if I can make some progres with it.