I just did a clean install of Gentoo last week and did not have any problems getting the emu up and running again. However, the latest version of perl in Gentoo's emerge is 5.8, if you are using a version newer than 5.8 that could be the problem. According to this post:
http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthr...t=perl+problem eqemu depends on files that were not in the latest version of perl.