somewhere while emerging KDE, I get this: >>> Emerging (19 of 204) dev-util/intltool-0.35.5 to / * intltool-0.35.5.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking intltool-0.35.5.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking intltool-0.35.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/intltool-0.35.5/work * Applying intltool-0.35.5-update.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/intltool-0.35.5/work/intltool-0.35.5 ... ./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 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes 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 seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/intltool-0.35.5/work/intltool-0.35.5/config.log * * ERROR: dev-util/intltool-0.35.5 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2028: Called econf * ebuild.sh, line 513: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * The die message: * 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/dev-util/intltool-0.35.5/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/intltool-0.35.5/temp/environment'. * Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup blank system 2. emerge kde 3. emerging intltool fails with error message from description of this bug Actual Results: emerging intltool fails because XML-Parser is not installed Expected Results: emerging kde works fine Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5365 @ 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j12" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa ao arts atm audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb cdinstall cdio cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv icq imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jabber java java5 jikes jpeg kde kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mmap mng modplug mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp openssl oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection sdl sdl-image sdl-sound sdlaudio session sharedmem spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 subversion svg symlink tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode unzip usb vim vim-syntax vorbis webdav webdav-neon win32codecs x86 xml xmlrpc xorg xslt xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***