[Fink-users] Failure of gnome-vfs2, missing XML::Parser (not)

[Allan Angus]

Several packages appear to depend upon gnome-vfs2... gnome2, kde, etc. 

In attempting to compile gnome-vfs2, I consistently get a failure at the check stage for the XML::Parser. For example,

The following package will be installed or updated:
gnome-vfs2
The following additional package will be installed:
gnome-vfs2-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
bzip2 -dc /sw/src/gnome-vfs-2.4.2.tar.bz2 | /sw/bin/tar -xf - --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions 
patch -p1 </sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/gnome-vfs2.patch
<snip>
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for perl... /sw/bin/perl
configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
Failed: compiling gnome-vfs2-2.4.2-7 failed

If the entire thing becomes useful, it's easy to recreate. 

I have checked the list archive and discovered a similar problem reported in Feb that appeared to have been cleared by ensuring that the XML::Parser module was present. However, on my install, Finkcommander reports a current version of xml-parser-pm (2.34-13) and xml-parser-pm581 (2.34-11). 

In addition, I find
Allan-Angus-Computer:/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/XML/Parser aangus$ ls -l
total 80
drwxr-xr-x  21 root  admin    714  7 Apr 16:55 Encodings
-r--r--r--   1 root  admin  33917 18 Aug  2003 Expat.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root  admin   1571 27 Jul  2003 LWPExternEnt.pl
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin    238  7 Apr 16:55 Style

and

Allan-Angus-Computer:/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/XML aangus$ ls -l
total 136
drwxr-xr-x  23 root  admin    782  7 Apr 16:02 LibXML
-r--r--r--   1 root  admin  31664 14 Feb 12:35 LibXML.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root  admin   5338 29 Feb 10:26 LibXML.pod
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  admin    204  7 Apr 16:55 Parser
-r--r--r--   1 root  admin  27103 18 Aug  2003 Parser.pm

In short, Parser.pm and Expat.pm are both present. Inspection of the internals shows that both are at v2.34. 

The only other thing I can think of is that they are in the wrong location or that Parser.pm can't locate Expat.pm... it is coded to die of Expat.pm does not exist.

Any help would be appreciated. 

Finkcommander is v0.5.1 (I know, the current is .2), but that's what I started with. 

And
Allan-Angus-Computer:/sw/bin aangus$ fink --version
Package manager version: 0.20.0
Distribution version: 0.7.0.cvs 

The box is a 17" Al book with 10.3.3. For the record, I began with binary install of wmaker... worked fine. Added kde from stable source, and got a weird problem in which no new window's features would function, but new windows would open. I got the gnome & kde stable binaries, and noticed that kde menu items would work fine within gnome. I tried a .xinitrc with gnome-session & and exec startkde lines, and the problem with windows did not occur (although you do have goofy overlap of menu bars). 

I assumed that kde wanted some support that gnome had and could find. So then I went to the unstable source trees, and came across this issue.

It seems to kill my compilations of the latest gnome-bundle, kde, koffice, etc.

-Allan