Bug 387127 – dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2011-r1 failed to build format

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description José Romildo Malaquias 2011-10-14 13:53:22 UTC]

When updating texlive-basic-2011-r1, emerge fails with the error messages:

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fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2011-r1/work/texmf-var/web2c
for details.
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This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`luatex -ini  -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' failed
`luatex -ini  -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini' failed
 * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2011-r1 failed (compile phase):
 *   failed to build format texmf/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line   91:  Called src_compile
 *   environment, line 2367:  Called texlive-module_src_compile
 *   environment, line 2973:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *               VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts" TEXMFHOME="${S}/texmf:${S}/texmf-dist:${S}/texmf-var" env -u TEXINPUTS fmtutil --cnffile "${i}" --fmtdir "${S}/texmf-var/web2c" --all || die "failed to build format ${i}";


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 José Romildo Malaquias 2011-10-14 13:55:00 UTC]

Created attachment 289789 [details]
dev-texlive:texlive-basic-2011-r1:20111014-134251.log

The complete build log.

[Comment 2 José Romildo Malaquias 2011-10-14 13:56:36 UTC]

Created attachment 289791 [details]
emerge.info.txt

The output of emerge --info

[Comment 3 Geoff Madden 2011-10-15 08:22:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created attachment 289791 [details]
> emerge.info.txt
> 
> The output of emerge --info

Had same hassle here as well ,eventually by running 'fmtutil -missing'  it compiled up ok. Might add it took about 3 days to come up with this trick.
Geoff

[Comment 4 Geoff Madden 2011-10-15 08:23:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Created attachment 289791 [details]
> > emerge.info.txt
> > 
> > The output of emerge --info
> 
> Had same hassle here as well ,eventually by running 'fmtutil -missing'  it
> compiled up ok. Might add it took about 3 days to come up with this trick.
> Geoff

That is 'fmtutil --missing' ( aal thumbs today)

[Comment 5 Alexis Ballier 2011-10-18 17:10:54 UTC]

luatex: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

-> run revdep-rebuild...