Bug 334871

Summary:	app-text/gtkspell-2.0.16 missing dev-perl/XML-Parser dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John (EBo) David <ebo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John (EBo) David 2010-08-27 20:06:08 UTC

gtkspell requires the XML::Parser perl module to configure, but it is not included in the ebuilds dependencies. Here are a few lines of the build log for confirmation:

checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.12.1
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

After installing XML-Parser, gtkspell builds as expected.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-27 20:20:29 UTC

You may need to run perl-cleaner first.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-27 20:25:19 UTC

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-27 20:25:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***

Comment 4 John (EBo) David 2010-08-27 21:08:46 UTC

Why not add "perl-cleaner --reallyall" or similar to perl's ebuild pkg_postins and make this automatic every time perl is updated or downgraded?  I have not programmed in perl in a decade, and have no idea of the nuances of maintaining a working perl installation on my cluster nor home machines.  

Also, the last time I updated perl the cleaner_msg was buried in the middle of output from 265 packages that were updated in the middle of the night, and I never saw the message.