libperl, new stages and other fun

Well it's been a longer couple of days. First with the fixes to ameslab I have a new viable 2.6.6 kernel which is a good development. (Wanna see what patches are going into ameslab? Point your webbrowser to http://bk.linuxppc64.org)

The one fly in the oitment (and there is always one with this project), is that this also requires the 20040408 or greater version of the 3.3-hammer gcc compiler. Joy... nothing like reving the toolchain so you have to build all the stages over. So I started down that path and the next boogie man popped up.

libperl. So it turns out it doesn't want to build squaking about main not being defined while it was building the .so.. which is entirely bogus since first there shouldn't be a main and second it was missing the shared flag. wtf!

Emerging the package from the command line and it's fine. Yet oddly on another machine in another chroot building the same stage works just fine. So I'm wondering if something isn't h0rked with my partition I use for building. Dunno ...

At the same time, 3.4 is also very interesting so it's time to get that rolling, not to mention also start to get more useful user packages built.

So much to do!