Quick fix: cpan install XML::Parser Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1 2. 3.
Please reopen with revelant snip from build logs.
My bad, i though that the title was relevant enough, and actually the issue turned out to be caused by a documentation-problem with the perl package. See the logs: x ~ # cat /var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/temp/build.log >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking pidgin-2.5.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/work/pidgin-2.5.9 ... * Applying pidgin-2.5.9-xmpp-old-ssl.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/work/pidgin-2.5.9 ... * Disabling GnuTLS, using NSS * econf: updating pidgin-2.5.9/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating pidgin-2.5.9/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-consoleui --enable-nls --enable-perl --enable-gtkui --enable-startup-notification --enable-screensaver --enable-sm --disable-tcl --disable-gtkspell --disable-tk --disable-debug --disable-dbus --disable-meanwhile --disable-gevolution --enable-gstreamer --disable-cyrus-sasl --enable-doxygen --disable-cap --disable-nm --without-krb4 --disable-avahi --with-dynamic-prpls=irc,jabber,oscar,yahoo,simple,msn,myspace --disable-mono --x-includes=/usr/include/X11 --enable-gnutls=no --enable-nss=yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc object... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/gmsgfmt checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.8.8 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/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/work/pidgin-2.5.9/config.log * * ERROR: net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_configure * environment, line 3445: Called econf '--enable-consoleui' '--enable-nls' '--enable-perl' '--enable-gtkui' '--enable-startup-notification' '--enable-screensaver' '--enable-sm' '--disable-tcl' '--disable-gtkspell' '--disable-tk' '--disable-debug' '--disable-dbus' '--disable-meanwhile' '--disable-gevolution' '--enable-gstreamer' '--disable-cyrus-sasl' '--enable-doxygen' '--disable-cap' '--disable-nm' '--without-krb4' '--disable-avahi' '--with-dynamic-prpls=irc,jabber,oscar,yahoo,simple,msn,myspace' '--disable-mono' '--x-includes=/usr/include/X11' '--enable-gnutls=no' '--enable-nss=yes' * ebuild.sh, line 536: 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/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.9-r1/temp/environment'. * x ~ # emerge --info Virtual package in package.provided: virtual/httpd-cgi-0 See portage(5) for correct package.provided usage. Portage 2.2_rc41 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29.2-grsec2.1.14-vs2.3.0.36.12-jpic-v4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29.2-grsec2.1.14-vs2.3.0.36.12-jpic-v4-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X3360_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=prescott -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages nostrip parallel-fetch parrallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr en es" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups doc dri examples fontconfig fortran gdbm gpg gpm iconv idn isdnlog jpeg modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection sdl session spl ssl sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode urandom vim-syntax x86 xorg 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 mmap_emul 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="joystick evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr en es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa vga fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS x ~ # emerge -pv perl libperl dev-perl/XML-Parser Virtual package in package.provided: virtual/httpd-cgi-0 See portage(5) for correct package.provided usage. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r2 USE="berkdb gdbm -debug -ithreads" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5 USE="berkdb doc gdbm -build -debug -ithreads -perlsuid" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36 0 kB Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. x ~ # equery files dev-perl/XML-Parser Virtual package in package.provided: virtual/httpd-cgi-0 See portage(5) for correct package.provided usage. [ Searching for packages matching dev-perl/XML-Parser... ] * Contents of dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36: /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/Japanese_Encodings.msg /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/README /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/big5.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/euc-kr.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1250.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1252.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-unicode.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jdk117.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jisx0221.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-unicode.enc /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Expat.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Style /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Style/Debug.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Style/Objects.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Style/Stream.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Style/Subs.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser/Style/Tree.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML/Parser /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML/Parser/Expat /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/XML-Parser-2.36 /usr/share/doc/XML-Parser-2.36/Changes.bz2 /usr/share/doc/XML-Parser-2.36/README.bz2 x ~ # It seems that XML-Parser was emerged when perl* was compiled with ithreads. All perl modules packages became unusable when i recompiled perl* with -ithreads, because changing the ithreads flag of perl or libperl doesn't trigger a reinstall of existing perl modules; nor does it suggest to do it manually. * Can't recall if it was it perl or libperl. This bug is definitively invalid, but what do you think of the perl module packages issue?
(In reply to comment #2) > It seems that XML-Parser was emerged when perl* was compiled with ithreads. > > All perl modules packages became unusable when i recompiled perl* with > -ithreads, because changing the ithreads flag of perl or libperl doesn't > trigger a reinstall of existing perl modules; nor does it suggest to do it > manually. > > * Can't recall if it was it perl or libperl. > > This bug is definitively invalid, but what do you think of the perl module > packages issue? > Probably all perl modules could take usage from use deps and then if use ithreads require dev-lang/{lib,}perl[ithreads] and thus drop perl-cleaner. Reopen to assign.
Next perl ebuild will show a warning and perl-cleaner will be able to reinstall the broken packages. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 222767 ***
(In reply to comment #4) > Next perl ebuild will show a warning and perl-cleaner will be able to reinstall > the broken packages. > Thanks, keep up the good job!
