During the configure stage of an 'emerge gnome-panel': checking for intltool >= 0.21... 0.29 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.4.2 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed 'emerge XML-Parser; emerge gnome-panel' fixes the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I don't see intltool 0.29 in portage... are you using BMG ebuilds ?
intltool 0.30 is in portage now, this bug can be closed.
FIXED