dev-libs/libmemcached should depend on perl-core/PodParser, but does not. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I just did an emerge --depclean recently, which removed perl-core/PodParser. Actual Results: Merging dev-libs/libmemcached-0.37 results in the configure error: configure: error: "Could not find podchecker anywhere in path" Works fine when perl-core/PodParser-1.38 is installed. $ emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc62 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r3-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:30:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b 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podchecker should be installed by your dev-lang/perl package. Please attach `qlist -e dev-lang/perl | grep podchecker` and `ls -l /usr/bin/podchecker*`
You're right! I just unmerged PodParser again and the link is still there. > Please attach > `qlist -e dev-lang/perl | grep podchecker` and /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker-1.32-perl-5.8.8.1.bz2 /usr/bin/podchecker-1.32-perl-5.8.8 > `ls -l /usr/bin/podchecker*` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2010-02-01 12:05 /usr/bin/podchecker -> podchecker-1.38-PodParser-1.38 This is alright now. This symbolic link somehow got lost while doing emerge --depclean, but I don't know which unmerge was triggering the unlink. Merging perl-core/PodParser solved the missing link problem for me, that's why I guessed it must be installed (`equery belongs /usr/bin/podchecker` didn't tell me anything). Closing as invalid.
