cannot install gnome-doc-utils due to wrong p5-xml-parser

[ralph@…]

Install of gnome-doc-utils fails if p5-xml-parser is present as it requires the variant p5-xml-parser +universal at least on my system:

:info:configure checking for intltool-update... /opt/local/bin/intltool-update
:info:configure checking for intltool-merge... /opt/local/bin/intltool-merge
:info:configure checking for intltool-extract... /opt/local/bin/intltool-extract
:info:configure checking for xgettext... /opt/local/bin/xgettext
:info:configure checking for msgmerge... /opt/local/bin/msgmerge
:info:configure checking for msgfmt... /opt/local/bin/msgfmt
:info:configure checking for gmsgfmt... /opt/local/bin/msgfmt
:info:configure checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl
:info:configure checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.12.2
:info:configure checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
:info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_gnome-doc-utils/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.4" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-scrollkeeper am_cv_python_pythondir=/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ " returned error 2
:error:configure Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:configure Warning: the following items did not execute (for gnome-doc-utils): org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
:notice:configure Log for gnome-doc-utils is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_gnome-doc-utils/main.log

After

sudo port install p5-xml-parser +universal

gnome-doc-utils installs fine.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to fill in the Port field and cc the maintainers. I can't reproduce this, and without the config.log we'll never know what the actual problem was.

[ralph@…]

Well, something is clearly wrong as it was complaining (see the log extrct above)

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

when p5-xml-parser was already present. This is clearly wrong behaviour, whatever was going on.