Hi, Stroller. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote:
> On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > ... > > I'm trying "# emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta". > If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for > the "--update". I don't know that "--deep" is good practice, either. > What are you trying to achieve? To update my first installation of xfce from ~February 2010. Maybe it would have been better to omit the "--deep" to begin with. > > It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends > > and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the > > build log: > > ... > >> Checking if your kit is complete... > >> Looks good > >> MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found. > >> ExtUtils::Depends not installed > >> ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed > Google search for this error message: > http://tinyurl.com/6b5hbp7 > 3rd hit: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344557 Thanks. perl-cleaner did the job on this bug. :-) > Stroller. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).