I'm not sure what the problem is here, expat is installed (subversion, at least, is using it) but p5-xml-parser won't go in because it cannot find it. I've tried exporting EXPATLIBPATH and EXPATINCPATH but still no cookie. (I have synced and cleaned installed too.) What could be wrong? // George geo@fuji:/Users/geo port installed expat The following ports are currently installed: expat @2.0.0_1 expat @2.0.1_0 (active) geo@fuji:/Users/geo sudo port outdated The following installed ports are outdated: gmp 4.2.2_0 < 4.2.2_1 libpcap 0.9.5_1 < 0.9.8_0 R 2.5.1_0 < 2.6.1_0 tcl 8.4.16_0 < 8.5.0_0 urw-fonts 1.0.7pre43_0 < 1.0.7pre44_0 vim 7.1.175_0 < 7.1.203_0 xrender 0.9.0_1 < 0.9.0_2 geo@fuji:/Users/geo sudo port install gnupod Password: ---> Configuring p5-xml-parser Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/usr/local/MacPorts/var/macports/build/_usr_local_MacPorts_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_perl_p5-xml-parser/work/XML-Parser-2.36" && /usr/local/MacPorts/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor " returned error 2 Command output: Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lexpat Expat must be installed prior to building XML::Parser and I can't find it in the standard library directories. You can download expat from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ If expat is installed, but in a non-standard directory, then use the following options to Makefile.PL: EXPATLIBPATH=... To set the directory in which to find libexpat EXPATINCPATH=... To set the directory in which to find expat.h For example: perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/home/me/lib EXPATINCPATH=/home/me/include Note that if you build against a shareable library in a non-standard location you may (on some platforms) also have to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable at run time for perl to find the library. Error: The following dependencies failed to build: p5-xml-parser Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. -- George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><