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

[Paul Howarth]

Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi,
> On 7/14/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> >From the OP's original posting:
>> ..
>>  checking for intltool >= 0.18... 0.34.1 found
>> ..
>>
>> # rpm -ql intltool | xargs grep XML | grep require
>> /usr/bin/intltool-extract:    my $ret = eval 'require XML::Parser';
>> /usr/bin/intltool-merge:    my $ret = eval 'require XML::Parser';
>> /usr/bin/intltool-merge:    my $ret = eval 'require XML::Parser';
>> /usr/bin/intltool-update:"xml(?:\\.in)*|".      # 
>> http://www.w3.org/XML/ (Note: .in is not required)
>> /usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4:   if `$INTLTOOL_PERL -e "require 
>> XML::Parser" 2>/dev/null`; then
>> /usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4:       AC_MSG_ERROR([XML::Parser perl 
>> module is required for intltool])
>> /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.34.2/ChangeLog:       of intltool that 
>> require the XML::Parser perl module
>> /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.34.2/ChangeLog:        needed to merge XML 
>> files, so do not require it when building
>> /usr/share/intltool/intltool-extract.in:    my $ret = eval 'require 
>> XML::Parser';
>> /usr/share/intltool/intltool-merge.in:    my $ret = eval 'require 
>> XML::Parser';
>> /usr/share/intltool/intltool-merge.in:    my $ret = eval 'require 
>> XML::Parser';
>> /usr/share/intltool/intltool-update.in:"xml(?:\\.in)*|".        # 
>> http://www.w3.org/XML/ (Note: .in is not required)
>>
>> => intltool uses perl(XML::Parser) as a mandatory plugin all over the
>> place (Note the AC_MSG_ERROR).
>>
>  Thanks to all for replying. Don't know how but error solved this
> time by adding
> BuildRequires:  perl-XML-Parser
>  which i did similarly for some packages last week while doing their
> reviews but besides that they failed. I have reported this problem in
> one of BUG to Paul Howarth (dont remember BUG number). Anyway if i
> face again that problem will report back here.

Please note that the buildreq should be perl(XML::Parser) rather than 
perl-XML-Parser as discussed earlier in this thread.

Paul.