A recent design flaw in emerge causes it to trash an entire --emptytree world rebuild half-way through due to one package that doesn't build. =( The failing package is app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.74.0 with: Writing /tmp/smoketest-output/jhelpidx.xml error : Unknown node type 0 error : Unknown node type 177366080 html/math.xsl:5: element stylesheet: error : Reference to namespace 'mml' not in scope error : Unknown node type 0 error : Unknown node type 167781440 html/math.xsl:5: element stylesheet: error : Reference to namespace 'mml' not in scope * * ERROR: app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.74.0 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 48: Called src_compile * environment, line 110: Called _eapi0_src_compile * ebuild.sh, line 591: Called _eapi2_src_compile * ebuild.sh, line 625: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "emake failed" * The die message: * emake failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.74.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.74.0/temp/environment'. * This is a nothing little package that most other packages will simply ignore. This is a MAJOR bug because it prevents me from clearing out the last six months of errors on my system... Linux was installed only six years ago on this computer (still several months away from tying my DOS record...) Periodic use of --emptytree world is critical to maintaining a reasonably functional linux installation. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: either said package builds, or a way to simply --skipfirst --resume the emerge and have emerge attempt to build ***EVERY*** package in the list regardless of all considerations of dependancies or anything whatsoever.
It seems that at the same time this bug is both valid and invalid. All of this seems to come from the fact, that 1.73.3 tarball did not have a toplevel Makefile. Even src_install suggests that's it is not used. However, in 1.74.0 a toplevel Makefile was created and it seems it's breaking things. To the maintainer: is there a chance that "src_compile() { : ; }" is the proper solution ? Also, app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.74.3 was released, but the Makefile in the tarball is simply broken (but that's already covered by bug 261554). To the reporter: regardless of the above, you still may have a problem, "element stylesheet: error : Reference to namespace 'mml' not in scope" may be a symptom of a different problem
--keep-going is there for that; but we're going to stable a newer versions, so.
