hal econf fails while trying to emerge hal, saying that perl XML::Parser is missing. After "emerge XML-Parser" hal emerge'd without any problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -a hal here comes the tail of the build log: ... checking for getgrouplist... yes checking for asprintf... yes checking for mallopt... yes checking for strndup... yes checking for xmlto... no checking whether to build DocBook documentation... checking for xmllint... /usr/bin/xmllint yes checking for intltool >= 0.22... 0.35.5 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl 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/sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1/work/hal-0.5.9/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1638: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 985: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile hal-0.5.9-r1.ebuild, line 167: Called econf '--disable-policy-kit' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/hal-0.5.9-r1' '--with-os-type=gentoo' '--with-pid-file=/var/run/hald.pid' '--with-socket-dir=/var/run/hald' '--with-hwdata=/usr/share/misc' '--enable-hotplug-map' '--enable-man-pages' '--with-backend=linux' '--disable-verbose-mode' '--without-dell-backlight' '--disable-parted' '--disable-pcmcia-support' '--disable-docbook-docs' '--disable-doxygen-docs' '--disable-selinux' '--disable-console-kit' '--enable-acpi-toshiba' '--enable-acpi-ibm' ebuild.sh, line 586: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1/temp/build.log'.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***