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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:49:49
Message-Id: 20110419143341.GC4127@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed by Stroller
1 Hi, Stroller.
2
3 On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote:
4
5 > On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
6 > > ...
7 > > I'm trying "# emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta".
8
9 > If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for
10 > the "--update". I don't know that "--deep" is good practice, either.
11 > What are you trying to achieve?
12
13 To update my first installation of xfce from ~February 2010. Maybe it
14 would have been better to omit the "--deep" to begin with.
15
16 > > It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends
17 > > and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the
18 > > build log:
19
20 > > ...
21 > >> Checking if your kit is complete...
22 > >> Looks good
23 > >> MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found.
24 > >> ExtUtils::Depends not installed
25 > >> ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed
26
27
28 > Google search for this error message:
29 > http://tinyurl.com/6b5hbp7
30
31 > 3rd hit:
32 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344557
33
34 Thanks. perl-cleaner did the job on this bug. :-)
35
36 > Stroller.
37
38 --
39 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).