Bugzilla Bug 234343

Running emerge -pv gnome-applets I get:
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.3  USE="acpi gnome gstreamer hal
ipv6 -apm -debug -doc -test" 0 kB 
and running it for real fails to compile

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge gnome-applets

Actual Results:  
 * Messages for package gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.3:

 * 
 * ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.3 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 2883:  Called gnome2_src_compile
 *             environment, line 2096:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       emake || die "compile failure"
 *  The die message:
 *   compile failure

Created an attachment (id=162596) [edit]
The build log

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4200+
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/
http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/source/ ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo
http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ "
LANG="C"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.101/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 acl acpi alsa amd64 avi branding cairo cdr cli
cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode evo fam
fame firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog
ivtv jpeg kerberos mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses
nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd
python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse
sse2 ssl ssse3 subtitles svg tcpd tiff truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis xml
xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem
bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel
intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug
rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic
authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm
authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache
dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache
filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic
negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack
vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I cannot confirm this bug. On my system this package compiles fine. The
difference could be in that I am using a testing system instead of a stable,
although version numbers do not differ.
Try doing as root: emerge --sync
then try to emerge the package again.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I cannot confirm this bug. On my system this package compiles fine. The
> difference could be in that I am using a testing system instead of a stable,
> although version numbers do not differ.
> Try doing as root: emerge --sync
> then try to emerge the package again.
> 

Just tried that. No good.

This works fine for me.  Which versions of app-text/docbook-xml-dtd do you
have?  Could you try

emerge -1 =app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.3

And see if that fixes your build?

(In reply to comment #5)
> This works fine for me.  Which versions of app-text/docbook-xml-dtd do you
> have?  Could you try
> 
> emerge -1 =app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.3
> 
> And see if that fixes your build?
> 

I have app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r1. I'm in a hurry now, but I'll post
results for this idea later today. 

app-text/docbook-xml-dtd is slotted, and the 4.3 slot is the important one
here.  Please list all the versions of app-text/docbook-xml-dtd that you have
installed.

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > This works fine for me.  Which versions of app-text/docbook-xml-dtd do you
> > have?  Could you try
> > 
> > emerge -1 =app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.3
> > 
> > And see if that fixes your build?
> > 
> 
> I have app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r1. I'm in a hurry now, but I'll post
> results for this idea later today. 
> 

Ok, so here are my installed docbook versions:
 ~ $ equery list app-text/docbook-xml-dtd
[ Searching for package 'docbook-xml-dtd' in 'app-text' among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r6 (4.1.2)
[I--] [  ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r1 (4.4)

then I ran 
emerge -1 =app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.3

then 
emerge gnome-applets  (for gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.3)

and it worked. 

Thank you for working with me to get this solved. 
I'm not going to mark the bug as solved yet, because I haven't actually fixed
the issue for everybody, only myslef.
I'll leave that up to the developers.

Thanks again.

I've made the app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.3 dep unconditional.