Hi
I have exactly same problem and awaiting your results. I have posted my question in 'desktop environment as 'XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool-gnome-vfs' at (
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-321009.html') but there no answers yet.
I ran revdep-rebuild and ran ok. Then emerged gnome-vfs again and again I got the error.
/usr/bin/orbit-idl-2 -I `pkg-config --variable=idldir bonobo-activation-2.0` ./GNOME_VFS_Daemon.idl
orbit-idl-2 2.12.0 compiling
mode, show preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers skel_impl imodule
orbit-idl-2 2.12.0 compiling
mode, show preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers skel_impl imodule
gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc"
Error: Empty file
** (process:23438): WARNING **: ./GNOME_VFS_Daemon.idl compilation failed
make[2]: *** [GNOME_VFS_Daemon-common.c] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc"
Error: Empty file
** (process:23435): WARNING **: ./GNOME_VFS_Daemon.idl compilation failed
make[2]: *** [GNOME_VFS_Daemon.h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-vfs-2.8.4-r1/work/gnome-vfs-2.8.4/libgnomevfs'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-vfs-2.8.4-r1/work/gnome-vfs-2.8.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
!!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.8.4-r1 failed.
!!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2
!!! compile failure
I also ran the other commands (except for the last which seem a bit frightening) and I got the same results as uman except my version of gcc is 3.3.5-r1. I can't remember if I changed the CHOST or not but I am nearly sure I took it from the example file in /etc.
I know I did see another forum at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-279020.html which seems to be dealing with the same thing. However I did not know what was meant by <old version>
lmcogs