Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

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).