Problems updating intltool on Gentoo

February 21, 2010

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If you are experiencing some problems on updating dev-util/intltool on Gentoo, this is the message that is shown:

checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.10.1 checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

In other emerges if its failing on some perl module check during ./configure, its maybe because dev-lang/perl was updated an its modules weren’t compiled against the new one, on my case I just runned the command:

perl-cleaner --all

It will rebuild all your modules against your new perl, then you can re-emerge dev-util/intltool.