When i try to emerge -u world gnome-applets-2.6.0-r1 fails to build Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -U gnome 2. 3. Actual Results: Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 3) gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.6.0-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) gnome-applets-2.6.0.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gnome-applets-2.6.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gnome-applets-2.6.0-r1/work * Fixing OMF Makefile: omf.make * Applying gnome-applets-2.6.0-battstat.patch... [ ok ] * Applying gnome-applets-2.6.0-weather_icon_fix.patch... [ ok ] * Applying gnome-applets-2.6.0-fix_alsa_mixer.patch... [ ok ]>>> Source unpacked. * Patching ${S}/ltmain.sh... * Applying portage-1.4.1.patch... * Applying max_cmd_len-1.5.0.patch... configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.6.0-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Expected Results: software should have upgraded gnome-applets Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode esd fam foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk+ gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jikes joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb videos x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Did you rebuild your perl modules after a perl upgrade?(read output at end of perl emerge)
My apologies, misread the output at the end of perl, saw it saying 5.6 and didnt read further, all sorted now, thank you.
