Bug 116120

Summary:	gnome-panel emerge failed missing a libxml2 dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	sinizzl <sinizzl>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	andre, bg, Klement.Sekera, kris333
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	103197

Description sinizzl 2005-12-19 21:34:30 UTC

recently found out that portage did not tell me to also emerge libxml2 for getting the compilation of the gnome-panel working. it was not needed for 2.10, but it obviously is for 2.12. i never did a "emerge gnome" or "emerge gnome-light"; i just wanted to use the gnome-panel for xfce. a emerge --pretend gnome/gnome-light didn't tell me to emerge libxml2 too though.

Comment 1 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-20 04:56:33 UTC

did you have libxml installed already?

can you provide an error log?

If you already had it installed, this is probably a dupe.

Comment 2 sinizzl 2005-12-22 18:11:49 UTC

no, i haven't installed libxml before, and unfortunately, i cannot provide an error log. i thought this was not necessary since it was clear to install libxml2 to get it working and this is only a minor bug, isn't it?

Comment 3 Nick Devito 2005-12-29 13:14:02 UTC

I have also incountered this problem, where python would error out "ImportError: No Module named libxml2". Emerging libxml2 would fix the problem, however, it seems the gnome-panel ebuild is missing this dependancy.

Comment 4 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-14 05:54:25 UTC

*** Bug 118955 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-19 17:27:50 UTC

I've investigated this issue a bit more.

gnome-panel deps on libgnomeui deps on libbonoboui deps on libxml2.

Therefore, you should have libxml2 installed.  If you did NOT have libxml2 installed, you would have gotten this error:
checking for PANEL... configure: error: Package requirements blah blah were not met.

This is because it would have tried to get the pkg-config flags, and failed when it got to libgnomeui-2.0 and received the following error:
Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
Package `libxml-2.0', required by ' libbonoboui', not found

and not the ImportError.

Therefore, you either:
1) forgot to run python-updater after upgrading python
2) have -python in your use flags.

I have committed an updated ebuild to fix the 2nd case only.  

gnome-panel does not directly depend on libxml2.

Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-21 13:29:18 UTC

*** Bug 123652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***