gdm depends upon a specific version of docbook-xml-dtd. Without it installed, the build fails with various errors. In this case gdm-2.20.10 depends on docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to install gdm-2.20.10-r3 without docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2 installed Actual Results: xsltproc -o gdm-ko.omf --stringparam db2omf.basename gdm --stringparam db2omf.format 'docbook' --stringparam db2omf.dtd "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" --stringparam db2omf.lang ko --stringparam db2omf.omf_dir "/usr/share/omf" --stringparam db2omf.help_dir "/usr/share/gnome/help" --stringparam db2omf.omf_in "/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r3/work/gdm-2.20.10/docs/gdm.omf.in" --stringparam db2omf.scrollkeeper_cl "`scrollkeeper-config --pkgdatadir`/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml" `/usr/bin/pkg-config --variable db2omf gnome-doc-utils` ko/gdm.xml || { rm -f "gdm-ko.omf"; exit 1; } http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:113: parser error : Comment must not contain '--' (double-hyphen) <!--end of ISOcyr1.module-->]]> ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:116: parser warning : PEReference: %ISOcyr2.module; not found <![%ISOcyr2.module;[ ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:116: parser error : conditional section INCLUDE or IGNORE keyword expected <![%ISOcyr2.module;[ ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:116: parser error : Content error in the external subset <!ENTITY % ISOcyr2 PUBLIC ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:116: validity error : All markup of the conditional section is not in the same entity <!ENTITY % ISOcyr2 PUBLIC ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:116: parser error : Content error in the external subset <!ENTITY % ISOcyr2 PUBLIC ^ unable to parse ko/gdm.xml http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent:41: parser error : Content error in the external subset <!E ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent:41: validity error : All markup of the conditional section is not in the same entity <!E ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:177: validity error : All markup of the conditional section is not in the same entity <!--end of ISOlat2.module-->]]> ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:180: parser warning : PEReference: %ISOnum.module; not found <![%ISOnum.module;[ ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:180: parser error : conditional section INCLUDE or IGNORE keyword expected <![%ISOnum.module;[ ^ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:180: parser error : Content error in the external subset <!ENTITY % ISOnum PUBLIC ^ unable to parse fr/gdm.xml make[2]: *** [gdm-ko.omf] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [gdm-fr.omf] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r3/work/gdm-2.20.10/docs' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r3/work/gdm-2.20.10' make: *** [all] Error 2 * ERROR: gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r3 failed: * compile failure * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 3223: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2426: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "compile failure" Expected Results: >>> Completed installing gdm-2.20.10-r3 into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r3/image/
gdm requires pango, and pango requires that docbook-xml-dtd version :-/
yes but it's a DEPEND, you can't rely on DEPENDs of another package.
Also, pango is an RDEPEND, meaning pango could be installed after the gdm emerge.
Thanks Gilles for pointing it. + 24 Apr 2010; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> gdm-2.20.10-r3.ebuild, + gdm-2.26.1.ebuild, gdm-2.28.2-r1.ebuild: + Add a DEPEND on app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.1.2 per bug #316025 (thanks to + Patrick for reporting). Just solved in 2.20.10-r3 and newer versions since all gdm versions seem to need it. I haven't touched 2.20.10-r2 because it's current stable and -r3 will go to stable soon with Gnome 2.28 but, if any other Gnome team member complaints, I will add DEPEND to it also without problems.
