Bug 30704 – Perl 5.8.1 and XML-SAX fails to install ParserDetails.ini

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Shaun Guth 2003-10-08 16:14:27 UTC]

I did a major upgrade to the latest perl revision and used portage to install
most of my perl modules, including XML-SAX and XML-Parser, etc.. 

When I try to run my scripts, I get an error that ParserDetails.ini is missing.

It was there with perl 5.8.0

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
I'm going to try and reproduce this on my home machine in a few hours
Actual Results:  
Did not install ParserDetails.ini

Expected Results:  
ParserDetails.ini should have been properly installed and configured

treant euroseek # emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium4 -msse2 -O3 -pipe -g"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm crypt encode foomaticdb gif imlib jpeg libwww mad mmx mpeg ncurses
nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png spell truetype xml2 zlib gdbm berkdb slang
readline mysql tcpd pam ssl perl python apache2 gd gd-external imap innodb lcms
maildir md5sum snmp sqlite threads tiff wmf -oss -arts -avi -cups -gpm -gtk
-java -kde -gnome -libg++ -mikmod -motif -qt -quicktime -sdl -svga -X -xmms -xv"

[Comment 1 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 03:53:37 UTC]

Which perl ebuild was this? Is it still a problem?

[Comment 2 Sergiy Borodych 2004-02-04 08:13:35 UTC]

After install XML::SAX from portage
I see this warning in apache log

could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX

is normal ?
maybe need add to ebuild default ParserDetails.ini ?

root@work portage # emerge -pv perl XML-SAX
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
 
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.3  +berkdb -doc +gdbm +threads  11,721 kB
[ebuild   R   ] dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.12   0 kB

[Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-02-27 07:37:11 UTC]

XML-SAX comes with a ParserDetails.ini file already.

[[[root@enki]]] qpkg -f /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
dev-perl/XML-SAX *

Granted, the ebuild for XML-SAX looks like it could use some tweaking for Gentoo purposes, but the file is created.

[Comment 4 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 03:20:03 UTC]

Downgrading from blocker as this does not prevent the installation of the OS.

[Comment 5 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-03-23 11:55:09 UTC]

Please reopen if after reading the comments you still aren't working. No comment in over a month and half (aside from devs), closing.

[Comment 6 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-03-26 15:59:44 UTC]

I seem to be getting the same problem, where XML-SAX (0.12) doesn't actually include ParserDetails.ini. This is both on ~x86 and ~ppc using perl-5.8.3.

Portage 2.0.50-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.1-mm2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.1-mm2 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/starthere /etc/fenris /etc/gconf /etc/postfix/sample /etc/sound/events /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg cvs digest distcc noauto sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage.local/liquidx /usr/portage.local/user"
SYNC="rsync://potato.vegetable.org.uk/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bluetooth bonobo cjk crypt cups curl encode esd foomaticdb gdbm geoip gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib jabber jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pda pdflib png pnp postgres python quicktime readline real sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype trusted x86 xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib"

[Comment 7 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-03-26 16:04:54 UTC]

Created attachment 28121 [details]
xml-sax-0.12 merge log

[Comment 8 Josh Glover (RETIRED) 2004-04-07 13:39:48 UTC]

I confirm this bug with sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 and dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.12.

Here is my nasty work-around:

emerge -C XML-SAX
perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::SAX'
emerge XML-SAX

Ugly and stupid, but it does result in a working XML::SAX.

I looked at the XML-SAX-0.12.ebuild, but nothing seems amiss. I wonder if the src_install() function that is inherited from perl-module.eclass is the real culprit?

[Comment 9 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-05-01 13:26:51 UTC]

OK, emerge sync and give it a whirl. Re-evaluating the Makefile.PL for this one, it appears to have changed directions in the pre-formatted questions it asks during building, but the ebuild never reflected this change. The modified ebuild is in place and should be available as you read this. Let us know if this can be closed out now 

[Comment 10 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-05-29 06:30:43 UTC]

Re-closing after no comment from a month ago.