Bug 256541 – dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.78 doesn't build (missing gtk-doc-am dep?)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeremy Whiting 2009-01-27 18:42:57 UTC]

dbus-glib package does not build here, and is preventing a bunch of packages from installing =)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to build dbus-glib-0.78 on ~x86

Actual Results:  
doesn't build

Expected Results:  
it should build =)

the contents of /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.78/temp/automake-5059.out:

***** automake *****
***** automake --add-missing --copy
       
gtk-doc.make:7: GTK_DOC_USE_LIBTOOL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
doc/reference/Makefile.am:89:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
gtk-doc.make:48: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
doc/reference/Makefile.am:89:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
gtk-doc.make:153: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
doc/reference/Makefile.am:89:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here

and the result of emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo i686)
=================================================================                                
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_2.80GHz-with-glibc2.0           
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:45:02 +0000                                               
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]                                                                    
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48                                                                     
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7                                                            
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4, 2.5.4-r2                                                          
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5                                                                    
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8                                                                      
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2-r1                                                                    
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0                                                                       
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.2                                                                       
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.3.2                                                                       
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63                                                                  
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2                    
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19                                                                        
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4                                                                   
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a                                                                      
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1                                                                   
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"                                                                       
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                       
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"                                                                   
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                        
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/local/env /usr/local/share/config /usr/local/shutdown /usr/share/config"                                                                                                                                     
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"                                                                                                                                   
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages keepwork parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_TW"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
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://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X accessibility acl acpi alsa bash-completion bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd fortran fts3 gdbm gpm iconv isdnlog jpeg kde mbrola midi mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openmp pam pcre pdo perl png pppd pth python qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sqlite ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora unicode vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs x86 xinerama xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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_emulmulaw 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_iduserdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_TW" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-01-27 21:35:54 UTC]

This sounds like a missing gtk-doc-am dependency. Does it build if you install that package?

[Comment 2 Jeremy Whiting 2009-01-27 22:04:00 UTC]

weird, I re-installed gtk-doc-am and it built fine this time, gtk-doc-am was up to date, so no clue what the problem was.

[Comment 3 Olliver Schinagl 2009-12-01 22:56:11 UTC]

This seems to be an upstream bug though. depending on gtk-doc-am seems like a quick work around, but I don't see the need to install this package on my gtk-less servers. nor on my mediacenter 'embedded' minimal box. (just nitpicking really)

And glib is used for other things non-gtk :)

[Comment 4 Olliver Schinagl 2009-12-01 22:58:21 UTC]

inspecting the ebuild more closly, shouldn't these two lines simply be swapped?

        dev-util/gtk-doc-am
        doc? (


I mean, gtk-doc-am seems to be a documentatial thing and thus it would fit nicely under doc? also concidering that it's cousin dev-util/gtk-doc is under the doc flag there.

[Comment 5 Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) 2009-12-02 04:22:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> inspecting the ebuild more closly, shouldn't these two lines simply be swapped?
> 
>         dev-util/gtk-doc-am
>         doc? (
> 
> 
> I mean, gtk-doc-am seems to be a documentatial thing and thus it would fit
> nicely under doc? also concidering that it's cousin dev-util/gtk-doc is under
> the doc flag there.
> 

gtk-doc-am installs a single 1.3KiB file: /usr/share/aclocal/gtk-doc.m4.  It has no dependencies, and is provided separately so that the full gtk-doc isn't a hard dependency of a package (which would would otherwise be the case).  This file is used whenever eautoreconf is called for a package with an otherwise optional dependency on gtk-doc, and, as such, cannot itself be made optional (due to the way autoconf works).

[Comment 6 Olliver Schinagl 2009-12-02 21:36:13 UTC]

Hmm, i suppose it's not so bad, still seems 'crufty' to me imo. anyway, it's a compile time dependancy so it won't get installed if i'd make a binary package and deploy that. I guess I'll live ...