Bug 94526 – metacity 2.10.0 fails to emerge because of missing XML::Parser perl module

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Pierre <pounard> R. 2005-05-30 10:54:09 UTC]

when trying to emerge metacity 2.10.0 its fails with error:
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is
required for intltool
but package dev-perl/XML-Parser is emerged on the box (version 2.34)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge gnome-light
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking metacity-2.10.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/metacity-2.10.0/work
 * Applying metacity-2-logout.patch ...                                        
                                     [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
 * Patching ${S}/ltmain.sh ...
 *   Applying portage-1.4.1.patch ...
 *   Applying max_cmd_len-1.5.0.patch ...
 *   Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ...
 * Applying uClibc/libtool patches ...
QA Notice: USE Flag 'doc' not in IUSE for x11-wm/metacity-2.10.0
 * econf: updating metacity-2.10.0/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
 * econf: updating metacity-2.10.0/config.guess with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-xinerama
--disable-compositor --disable-gtk-doc
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for intltool >= 0.21... 0.33 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is
required for intltool

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/metacity-2.10.0/work/metacity-2.10.0/config.log

!!! ERROR: x11-wm/metacity-2.10.0 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


Expected Results:  
it should compile

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-pnd i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-pnd i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr                
http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo              http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/
              http://gentoo.inode.at/                
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/                
http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch         
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/"
LANG="fr_FR@euro"
LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="fr fr_FR"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/zugaina-portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt
curl directfb dvd dvdr emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi
gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mmx mmxex motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss
pam pdflib perl png python readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib
linguas_fr linguas_fr_FR userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-30 10:58:40 UTC]

Congrats! Zilionth dupe! :p

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