Installing XML::Parser by hand resolved the issue. >>> emerge (2 of 180) x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) shared-mime-info-0.14.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking shared-mime-info-0.14.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/shared-mime-info-0.14-r1/work >>> Source unpacked. * econf: updating shared-mime-info-0.14/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub * econf: updating shared-mime-info-0.14/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-update-mimedb 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 configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/shared-mime-info-0.14-r1/work/shared-mime-info-0.14/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. >>> Unpacking hal-0.4.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/hal-0.4.2-r1/work * Applying hal-0.4.1-old_storage_policy.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying hal-0.4.0-allow-floppy-drives.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying hal-0.4.2-cdrom_media_check.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying hal-0.4.2-fstab_sync_crash.patch ... [ ok ]>>> Source unpacked. * econf: updating hal-0.4.2/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub * econf: updating hal-0.4.2/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-verbose-mode --disable-pcmcia-support --enable-fstab-sync --enable-hotplug-map --disable-doxygen-docs --disable-docbook-docs --with-pid-file=/var/run/hald/hald.pid 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 whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU 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 ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed 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 /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all 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 dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -E checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77 checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77 accepts -g... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse nm output from i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... strip checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc static flag works... yes 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 checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... 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... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the i686-pc-linux-gnu-g77 linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes 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 whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 2.3 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64 checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no checking for /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids... no checking for /usr/share/misc/pci.ids... yes checking for /usr/share/pci.ids... no checking sys/capability.h usability... yes checking sys/capability.h presence... yes checking for sys/capability.h... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.2.2, gobject-2.0 >= 2.2.2, dbus-glib-1 >= 0.20, dbus-1 >= 0.20... yes checking PACKAGE_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include checking PACKAGE_LIBS... -lgobject-2.0 -ldbus-glib-1 -lglib-2.0 -ldbus-1 checking expat.h usability... yes checking expat.h presence... yes checking for expat.h... yes checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes checking for dbus-1 >= 0.20... yes checking DBUS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include checking DBUS_LIBS... -ldbus-1 checking for doxygen... /usr/bin/doxygen checking whether to build Doxygen documentation... yes checking for BLKGETSIZE64... yes checking for docbook2html... /usr/bin/docbook2html checking whether to build DocBook documentation... yes checking for selinux_removable_context_path in -lselinux... no configure: WARNING: Sufficiently new SELinux library not found checking for intltool >= 0.22... 0.31.2 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/hal-0.4.2-r1/work/hal-0.4.2/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-apps/hal-0.4.2-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jun 20 2004, 21:32:10)] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r1, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9, 1.6.3, 1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.9.4, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups encode esd f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl see slang snmp spell ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41124 ***