Bug 551120 – media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14 bulid failed: String found where operator expected

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description tot-to 2015-06-03 22:40:41 UTC]

Please check the attached files for bulid.log and emerge -info

perl /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14/work/ffmpeg-2.2.14/do
c/texi2pod.pl -Dconfig-not-all=yes -Idoc /var/tmp/portage/media-video
/ffmpeg-2.2.14/work/ffmpeg-2.2.14/doc/libavfilter.texi doc/libavfilte
r.pod
pod2man --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " doc/ffprobe.pod > doc/
ffprobe.1
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Sim
ple/Transcode.pm line 1, near "options "-std=gnu++0x""
        (Do you need to predeclare options?)
Number found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Sim
ple/Transcode.pm line 4, near ") 2008"
        (Missing operator before 2008?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/S
imple/Transcode.pm line 4, near "2014 Free"
        (Missing operator before Free?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 6, near "++ Library"
        (Missing operator before Library?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 12, near "// This"
        (Missing operator before This?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 14, near "// MERCHANTABILITY"
        (Missing operator before MERCHANTABILITY?)
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 1, near "// { "
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 12, near "// This library "
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 14, near "// MERCHANTABILITY "
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm line 305.
/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14/work/ffmpeg-2.2.14/doc/Makefile:103: recipe for target 'doc/ffmpeg.1' failed
make: *** [doc/ffmpeg.1] Error 255
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 1, near "options "-std=gnu++0x""
        (Do you need to predeclare options?)
Number found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 4, near ") 2008"
        (Missing operator before 2008?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 4, near "2014 Free"
        (Missing operator before Free?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 6, near "++ Library"
        (Missing operator before Library?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 12, near "// This"
        (Missing operator before This?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 14, near "// MERCHANTABILITY"
        (Missing operator before MERCHANTABILITY?)
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 1, near "// { "
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 12, near "// This library "
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 14, near "// MERCHANTABILITY "
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm line 305.
/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14/work/ffmpeg-2.2.14/doc/Makefile:103: recipe for target 'doc/ffprobe.1' failed
make: *** [doc/ffprobe.1] Error 255
 * ERROR: media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14::gentoo failed (install phase):
 *   emake failed

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 tot-to 2015-06-03 22:43:13 UTC]

Created attachment 404546 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 tot-to 2015-06-03 22:45:12 UTC]

Created attachment 404548 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 3 Alexis Ballier 2015-06-04 07:31:07 UTC]

(In reply to tot-to from comment #0)

syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.2/Pod/Simple/Transcode.pm line 1, near "// { 

please try to reinstall dev-lang/perl; seems like this file is corrupted

[Comment 4 tot-to 2015-06-06 19:50:08 UTC]

Thank you.

Re-emerging of dev-lang/perl helps.

Is it some kind of filesystem/disk error in my system then?

[Comment 5 Alexis Ballier 2015-06-07 12:05:36 UTC]

(In reply to tot-to from comment #4)
> Thank you.
> 
> Re-emerging of dev-lang/perl helps.
> 
> Is it some kind of filesystem/disk error in my system then?

I can't tell for sure but it seems like that; i've seen this happen with power failures when writing to the disk (e.g. during emerge)