intltool 0.50.2 script failed on FreeBSD 9.1

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Greg Merrell <greg+ at netuser.net> wrote:

> ===>>> Launching child to install textproc/intltool
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> ===>>> All >> textproc/intltool (53/59)
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> ===>>> Currently installed version: intltool-0.41.1
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> ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/textproc/intltool
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> ===>>> Starting check for build dependencies
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> ===>>> Gathering dependency list for textproc/intltool from ports
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> ===>>> Dependency check complete for textproc/intltool
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> ===>>> All >> intltool-0.41.1 (53/59)
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> ===>  Cleaning for intltool-0.50.2
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> ===> Fetching all distfiles required by intltool-0.50.2 for building
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> ===>  Extracting for intltool-0.50.2
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> => SHA256 Checksum OK for gnome/intltool-0.50.2.tar.gz.
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> ===>   intltool-0.50.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.4 - found
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> ===>  Patching for intltool-0.50.2
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> ===>   intltool-0.50.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.4 - found
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> ===>   intltool-0.50.2 depends on package: p5-XML-Parser>=0 - found
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> ===>   intltool-0.50.2 depends on executable: gmake - found
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> ===>   intltool-0.50.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.4 - found
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> ===>   intltool-0.50.2 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found
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> ===>  Configuring for intltool-0.50.2
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> configure: loading site script /usr/ports/Templates/config.site
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> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g
> wheel
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> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... (cached) /bin/mkdir -p
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> checking for gawk... (cached) /usr/bin/awk
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> checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
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> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
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> checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.14.4
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>                 ******
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> checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is
> required for intltool
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>                 ******
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> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
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> Please report the problem to gnome at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
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> "/usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.50.2/config.log" including
> the
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> output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
> to
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> provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a
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> /usr/sbin/pkg_info -Ea).
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> *** [do-configure] Error code 1
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> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/intltool.
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> ===>>> make failed for textproc/intltool
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> ===>>> Aborting update
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> ===>>> Update for textproc/intltool failed
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> ===>>> Aborting update
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> ===>>> Killing background jobs
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> ===>>> There are messages from installed ports to display,
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>        but first take a moment to review the error messages
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>        above.  Then press Enter when ready to proceed.
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> I installed XML::Parser through Cpan and it worked fine then. Not sure why
> it didn't get picked up as a dependency earlier, but the error message was
> clear enough.
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> Greg
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Don't use CPAN for popular perl modules. Install textproc/p5-XML-Parser
from ports. Most popular Perl modules are in ports and installing them from
ports will greatly simplify maintenance and inter-operation woth other
ports. XML::Parser seems to be particularly touchy, for some reason.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com