Bug 73776

Summary:	emerge hal results in fatal error as a perl dependency. perl is already installed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bob <custom_basses>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.3
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1854977
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bob 2004-12-08 02:13:50 UTC

emerge hal stops with a fatal error, reporting that "XML::Parser perl module is required for inittool".  the latest ebuild of perl and libperl are already on the system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge hal
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
fatal error 

Expected Results:  
successful compilation

Comment 1 Joe McCann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-08 03:54:14 UTC

not using search is the fatal error here

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