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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:24:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org, Ambrus Szabo <szambusz@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: xkeyboard-config-1.8_1 to xkeyboard-config-1.8_2
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Ambrus Szabo <szambusz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> xkeyboard-config-1.8_1 to xkeyboard-config-1.8_2
>>>
>>> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly
>>
>> I see this periodically and have never bothered to track down the source, but
>> re-installing p5-XML-Parse seems to fix it.
>>
>> Just a guess is that something didn't run cleanly in a Perl upgrade. Perhaps
>> something did not get updated.
>
> At a guess, user updated perl, and either upgraded major versions and
> didn't rebuild all ports that depend on perl as described in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING, section 20100715, or upgraded minor version and
> didn't run the perl-after-upgrade script.

After something similar, I just used 'portmaster p5-\*'.  Brute force, 
but it fixed the problem.



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