On 1 Aug 2009, at 04:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I've got portage's dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36, but nevertheless several
packages have started to fail during emerge for lack of Perl's
XML::Parser.
Even the simple script fails to run under perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use XML::Parser;
print "yes\n";
Do I have to get it from CPAN?
Why would you get it from CPAN? Have you tried re-emerging the package?
Consider libgksu; here's the end of the emerge output, where
XML::Parser is required by intltool:
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module
is required for intltool
It's surely saying that because the ebuild or makefile has a test
script to see whether XML::Parser is present & working. Just as your
`print "yes\n"` is failing so is the test run by the installation
scripts, thus preventing install of libgksu.
It sounds like ABCD is on the right track with his suggestion
regarding the "ithreads" USE flag. But in any case you might normally
try re-emerging the package and running revdep-rebuild before calling
us.
If I had this problem then - depending on how quick my machine was,
how urgently I needed it fixed, and considering one might wait a few
hours for a response here - I might well remerge everything with
"perl" in the package name or category before becoming too flustered
about this. You might well find that does the job.
Stroller.
