Merging shared-mime-info fails with a requirement for XML-Parser (unless it's something else that I'm not aware of). //start snip # emerge -p XML-Parser These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36-r1 //end snip Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge shared-mime-info 2. fail Actual Results: emerge -a shared-mime-info These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71 * shared-mime-info-0.71.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * CPV: x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71 * REPO: gentoo * USE: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib userland_GNU >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking shared-mime-info-0.71.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared mime-info-0.71/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71/work/sh red-mime-info-0.71 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71/work/ hared-mime-info-0.71 ... ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gn --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysco fdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-dependency-tra king --disable-update-mimedb 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 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-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 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... none checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.41.0 found 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... 5.10.1 checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is requir d for intltool !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71/work/shared-mime-info-0.71/ onfig.log * ERROR: x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71 failed: * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_configure * environment, line 224: Called econf '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--di able-update-mimedb' * ebuild.sh, line 544: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =x11-misc/shared-mime info-0.71', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =x11-misc/shared-mime- nfo-0.71'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime- nfo-0.71/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared- ime-info-0.71/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71/work/shared-mime-info-0. 1' >>> Failed to emerge x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.71 Expected Results: Successful merge. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-00179-g6ebdc66 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-00179-g6ebdc66-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_6000+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl adns alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd tiff unicode vorbis xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41124 ***
The bug that this is a duplicate suggests merging the problem package again: # emerge XML-Parser And that fixed it. Is there some "Common Gentoo Issues" page, so I don't file stupid bugs?
