Bug 315783 – www-client/chromium-5.0.375.3 compilation failure

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description srunni 2010-04-17 20:30:52 UTC]

When I attempt to upgrade to www-client/chromium-5.0.375.3, the compilation fails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge www-client/chromium-5.0.375.3
2. Observe the build failure

[Comment 1 srunni 2010-04-17 20:32:07 UTC]

Created attachment 228209 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 2 srunni 2010-04-17 20:33:57 UTC]

$ emerge -pqv =www-client/chromium-5.0.375.3
[ebuild     U ] www-client/chromium-5.0.375.3 [5.0.307.9] USE="mp3%* plugins-symlink x264%* (-ffmpeg%*)" 

[Comment 3 srunni 2010-04-17 20:35:56 UTC]

Created attachment 228211 [details]
build log

[Comment 4 Bernard Cafarelli 2010-04-18 20:08:35 UTC]

Looks like some new build scripts use perl now?

Can you try to emerge virtual/perl-version and try again? Thanks

[Comment 5 Bartłomiej Majka 2010-04-18 20:27:33 UTC]

I think you need to have perl version >= 5.10.0 do compile this version of
chromium.

You will need to unmask a few packages (if you haven't done this before):

echo -e "dev-lang/perl\nsys-devel/libperl\napp-admin/perl-cleaner" >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords

Then install perl 5.10.1 or newer:

emerge -a =perl-5.10.1

After this, try installing chromium again.

[Comment 6 srunni 2010-04-19 01:37:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I think you need to have perl version >= 5.10.0 do compile this version of
> chromium.
> 
> You will need to unmask a few packages (if you haven't done this before):
> 
> echo -e "dev-lang/perl\nsys-devel/libperl\napp-admin/perl-cleaner" >>
> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> 
> Then install perl 5.10.1 or newer:
> 
> emerge -a =perl-5.10.1
> 
> After this, try installing chromium again.

Thanks a lot, it's working now!

Is there some way to know which versions of dependencies are needed if a package fails to compile like this, or do I just have to look at the build error?

[Comment 7 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-04-19 11:57:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I think you need to have perl version >= 5.10.0 do compile this version of
> chromium.

I have perl-5.8.8 and no virtual/perl-version (and neither perl-core/version), and compile succeeded for me. Maybe you just have broken perl (and the update fixed the mess)?

[Comment 8 Bernard Cafarelli 2010-04-19 12:21:11 UTC]

After checking, perl-version only became a dual-life module in perl 5.10, so in perl 5.8 you only need perl itself (Pawel can you run a locate on version.pm? you should have one in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 I think)

And in this case that does mean you had a broken perl setup, perl-cleaner can help in cases like that too

[Comment 9 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-04-19 19:01:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> After checking, perl-version only became a dual-life module in perl 5.10, so in
> perl 5.8 you only need perl itself (Pawel can you run a locate on version.pm?
> you should have one in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 I think)

According to locate I don't have version.pm on my system.

[Comment 10 Bernard Cafarelli 2010-04-19 21:38:27 UTC]

Ok so probably a broken perl setup then (failed 5.10 update/perl-cleaner not run maybe?)

[Comment 11 Bartłomiej Majka 2010-04-19 22:43:16 UTC]

OK, I also installed using perl v5.8.8 today without any problems and without version.pm file :)

The build log says version.pm is needed in this line:

$VERSION = '1.95';

but I see only a declaration here. It means Balanced.pm file which caused the build failure must have had something else in this line.

It is interesting that my Balanced.pm file is located in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Text directory, and the one from build log is somewhere else.

[Comment 12 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-04-20 07:53:04 UTC]

I'm closing this report, but feel free to re-open if you have more evidence that there is something to fix here.