error: XML::Parser perl module is required

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Aug 27 15:54:08 UTC 2011


On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Neil Short wrote:

> Trying to build xorg. Encountering problem with /x11/xkeyboard-config.
>
>
> <snip>
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.12.4
> checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to x11 at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> "/usr/ports/x11/xkeyboard-config/work/xkeyboard-config-1.8/config.log"
> including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be
> a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system
> (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xkeyboard-config.

Possibly due to a Perl module problem after perl was upgraded or 
rebuilt.  The brute force 'portmaster p5-' will rebuild all perl 
modules.  I've posted on this recently but can't find where.


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