236559 2008-09-03 12:20 0000 dev-tex/mh-20080903 with USE=doc: latex hangs for xfrac.dtx 2008-09-09 16:55:54 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Unspecified 2008.0 All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 Martin.vGagern@gmx.net tex@gentoo.org zeekec@mad.scientist.com Martin.vGagern@gmx.net 2008-09-03 12:20:35 0000 Latex has now spent over two hours on this command: latex --file-line-error \nonstopmode \input /var/tmp/portage/dev-tex/mh-20080903/work/mh/./xfrac.dtx invoked from /usr/bin/texi2dvi -q -c --language=latex ./xfrac.dtx invoked from latex-package_src_doinstall from latex-package.eclass I fear it's not about to finish any time soon. Running "/usr/bin/texi2dvi -c --language=latex ./xfrac.dtx" interactively results in this error message: xfrac.sty:30: Undefined control sequence. l.30 \ProvidesExplPackage {xfrac}{2008/08/04}{0.2}{Text fractions} Running "/usr/bin/texi2dvi -b -c --language=latex ./xfrac.dtx" to get nonstopmode and still see some output shows the process to hang here: l.30 \ProvidesExplPackage{x frac}{2008/08/04}{0.2}{Text fractions} (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def))) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex3/template/template.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex3/xparse/ldcsetup.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty stracing the process displays no syscall activity at all. Interrupting the process shows these messages: /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty:75: Interruption. \GenericInfo ...irstchoice@ \else 4\fi \endcsname \protect \GenericInfo l.75 \DeclareRobustCommand\setlength {\calc@assign@skip} ? /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty:75: Emergency stop. \GenericInfo ...irstchoice@ \else 4\fi \endcsname \protect \GenericInfo l.75 \DeclareRobustCommand\setlength {\calc@assign@skip} No pages of output. Transcript written on xfrac.log. /usr/bin/texi2dvi: latex exited with bad status, quitting. Disabling the doc USE flag for this package works around the problem. calc.sty comes from dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2007 latex is a symlink to pdftex from app-text/texlive-core-2007-r13 aballier@gentoo.org 2008-09-04 07:52:35 0000 confirmed. it was fine here but I had TeX Live 2008 installed. I've masked it until tl2008 hits the tree. # Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> (04 Sep 2008) # It appears to need more recent TeX packages than what we currently provide. # Bug #236559 # It works fine with TeX Live 2008; so it will need its deps to be adjusted when # it will hit the tree. Mask it meanwhile. >=dev-tex/mh-20080903 aballier@gentoo.org 2008-09-09 16:55:54 0000 texlive-latex3-2008 is the only one providing new enough packages for build it and therefore run it afterward. I've add the dep. It'll remain masked as long as tl2008 will be.