I am attempting to install my usual desktop environement (KDE plus a few things more), some package in my set depends on x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop, but when emerge reach that point it always fail with this message ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Messages for package x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8: * ERROR: x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8::gentoo failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 136: Called src_configure * environment, line 490: Called default * phase-functions.sh, line 872: Called default_src_configure * phase-functions.sh, line 907: Called __eapi2_src_configure * phase-helpers.sh, line 851: Called econf * phase-helpers.sh, line 732: Called __helpers_die 'econf failed' * isolated-functions.sh, line 112: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "$@" * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/work/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/work/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8' ---------------------------------------------------------------- # emerge --info '=x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8::gentoo' | wgetpaste Your paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/BVGDQ # emerge -pqv '=x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8::gentoo' | wgetpaste Your paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/XXARA # cat /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/temp/build.log | wgetpaste Your paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/ULARW # cat /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/temp/environment | wgetpaste Your paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/W62TY # cat /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/work/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/config.log | wgetpaste Your paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/ZRKKO I have also found someone else on the internet apparently affected by the same problem https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/failing-to-emerge-x11-themes-sound-theme-freedesktop-due-to-econf-failing-in-configure-phase-on-gentoo-4175728316/ The apparently relevant part of the error message seems the same checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool but in my case that perl module seems already installed! # eix dev-perl/XML-Parser [I] dev-perl/XML-Parser Available versions: 2.460.0-r2 Installed versions: 2.460.0-r2(01:39:01 AM 08/14/2023) Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Parser Description: A perl module for parsing XML documents Any suggestion? Cheers!
Please run 'perl-cleaner --all'.
Thanks, I am running it now ;) I forgot to say this is a fresh installed system!
It's hard to say how your system got into this state without a list of steps you've followed, but if I had to guess, it'd be something like an emerge got interrupted during Perl rebuilds (perl 5.38 just got stabled) or some USE flag was enabled on Perl which requires perl-cleaner --all afterwards.
A package required perl useflag change -------------------------------------------------- # required by media-sound/cantata-2.5.0::gentoo # required by @plasma-g10h4ck (argument) >=dev-lang/perl-5.36.1-r3 ithreads media-sound/cantata -cdda -------------------------------------------------- Maybe I didn't read well, but I don't remember any of the messages mentioned that perl cleaning was needed, but yes I remember to read somewhere that ithreads useflag was disabled by default because of compatibility issues
My guess is something like libxcrypt rebuild failing because I forgot bug 913517.
(In reply to Gioacchino Mazzurco from comment #4) > A package required perl useflag change > > -------------------------------------------------- > # required by media-sound/cantata-2.5.0::gentoo > > # required by @plasma-g10h4ck (argument) > > >=dev-lang/perl-5.36.1-r3 ithreads > media-sound/cantata -cdda > -------------------------------------------------- > > Maybe I didn't read well, but I don't remember any of the messages mentioned > that perl cleaning was needed, but yes I remember to read somewhere that > ithreads useflag was disabled by default because of compatibility issues That'd do it! :D Yeah, Perl gives you a message after setting certain flags (ithreads is one of them) to tell you to run perl-cleaner --all, but it might have got buried for you.
Running `perl-cleaner --all` before running emerge again fixed the problem. Thanks!
