intltool-0.21.2 doesn't find portage-installed XML-Parser-2.34 during its configure. These are the most recent stable x86 version of both ebuilds. Reemerging XML-Parser fixes the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> emerge (2 of 10) dev-util/intltool-0.31.2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) intltool-0.31.2.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking intltool-0.31.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/intltool-0.31.2/work >>> Source unpacked. ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59055 ***