error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

Michael J. Knox michael at knox.net.nz
Fri Jul 14 09:10:37 UTC 2006


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius schrieb:
>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Not that it matters much, but:
>>>
>>> Paul Howarth schrieb:
>>>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:57 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
>>>>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> In virtually all of these cases, the right thing to add as a 
>>>> buildreq is
>>>> actually intltool really, since XML::Parser is being checked for in the
>>>> configure script to ensure that intltool will work. 
>>> Yes. But intltool is included in some (a lot of?) packages so...
>>>> Adding intltool as a
>>>> buildreq will automatically pull in XML::Parser.
>>> ...will add a package as buildreq that's not used at all during build.
> 
> Maybe I should have mentioned here...
> 
> "So adding
> BuildRequires: perl(XML::Parser)
> is IMHO the better solution"

Ok, I will keep this in mind for future packaging. However, the "threat" 
of an external perl module being pulled into perl itself would be 
possible for any perl module... so are all perl related BuildRequires: 
to be perl(Something::Whatever) ?

Michael




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