Need to add dev-perl/XML-Parser 2.34-r1 to the RDEPEND for this ebuild perhaps? Since this bug cropped up on every workstation I got started upgrading to the latest kde, I'm posting it if nothing else for others who get confused. The easy fix is to just merge XML-Parser first. [snip of configure failure] checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.21-r1/work/shared-mime-info-0.21/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.21-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1632: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 983: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile shared-mime-info-0.21-r1.ebuild, line 31: Called econf '--disable-update-mimedb' ebuild.sh, line 586: Called die
It looks likely that this bug is due to my needing to recompile everything linking against expat on my system- revdep-rebuild to the rescue.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***