"emerge gnome-icon-theme" on my system fails during configure when "checking for XML::Parser ...". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome-icon-theme Actual Results: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0/work * Fixing OMF Makefiles ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0/work/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0 ... ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... none checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.35.5 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0/work/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1632: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 983: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1322: Called gnome2_src_compile gnome2.eclass, line 70: Called gnome2_src_configure gnome2.eclass, line 66: Called econf ebuild.sh, line 586: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/x11-themes:gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0:20070813-130720.log'. Note: I don't have gnome, I use xfce4.4 and the gnome-icon-theme package is a dependency of another package. I am attempting to update from gnome-icon-theme-2.16.1 to gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0. Version 2.16.1 did not have this problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***