I'm retarded and can't figure out what this means

Vermis · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.1/work/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.1/config.log

!!! ERROR: x11-themes/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Help...?

UncleOwen · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:43 am Post subject:

Do you have dev-perl/XML-Parser installed?

Vermis · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

As I said, I'm retarded. Thanks much ^^

scoon · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:56 am Post subject:

Ok.. Well that error means that you DO NOT HAVE IT INSTALLED.
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yngwin · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:19 pm Post subject:

Which would be a bug in the ebuild. That package then needs to be in the depend list...
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John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: Ghosts in the Machine

Well, not exactly.

I was having the same problem while building openoffice.

I checked the dependecies in the intltool ebuild and, sure enough, XML-Parser was listed as a dependency of intltool.

I then checked with equery to see if, for some reason, the XML-Parser had not been built and found out that it had been built (!), just as it should have been.

My best guess is that I caused this problem myself, however this is only a guess. Last week I rebuilt Perl after adding the ithreads USE flag. I did not rebuild the packages that depended on Perl, which, incidentally, include intltool.

My solution was to remerge intltool:

scoon · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

Hey there,

Wouldn't the --newuse flag for emerge helped you to find anything that needs to be rebuilt if you started changing flags ?

Just thinking out loud there: It may not have if the new use var was added using /etc/portage/package.use.

regards,
scoon
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John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

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kallamej · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads in favour of topic 197754.
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