emerging gdm failed just after displaying this error: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool I emerged dev-perl/XML-Parser then gdm emerged successfully. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge gdm without having dev-perl/XML-Parser gfsb portage # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.3 (default-bsd/fbsd/6.2/x86, gcc-4.1.2, freebsd-lib-6.2-r1, 6.2-RELEASE i386) ================================================================= System uname: 6.2-RELEASE i386 i386 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:00:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 6.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86-fbsd ~x86-fbsd" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="colision-protect cvs distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi avi berkdb bzip3 cddb cdrom cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus dri dts exif firefox gdbm gif gimp gtk iconv jabber java java5 javascript jpeg libg++ midi mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer ncurses nla nls nsplugin oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds python pythontruetype qt3 qt4 readline reflection sane session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts udev unicode usb wma wmv x86-fbsd xml xorg xsane xvid zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="FreeBSD" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="FreeBSD" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" LIRC_DEVICES="audio audio_alsa" USERLAND="BSD" VIDEO_CARDS="r128 mach64" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***