Bug 667574 – www-servers/varnish-6.1.0 : configure: error: sphinx-build is needed to build Varnish, please install python-sphinx.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:07:45 UTC]

checking for rst2man.py... rst2man.py
checking for sphinx-build... no
configure: error: sphinx-build is needed to build Varnish, please install python-sphinx.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/www-servers/varnish-6.1.0/work/varnish-6.1.0/config.log

  -------------------------------------------------------------------

  This is an unstable amd64 chroot image at a tinderbox (==build bot)
  name: 17.0_libressl_20180927-130336

  -------------------------------------------------------------------

gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-8.2.0 *

Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:
  [1]   python3.7
  [2]   python3.6
  [3]   python2.7 (fallback)
Available Ruby profiles:
  [1]   ruby23 (with Rubygems) *



emerge -qpv www-servers/varnish
[ebuild  N    ] www-servers/varnish-6.1.0  USE="-jemalloc -jit -static-libs" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -pypy -python3_4 -python3_5"

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:07:48 UTC]

Created attachment 548938 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:07:51 UTC]

Created attachment 548940 [details]
emerge-history.txt

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:07:54 UTC]

Created attachment 548942 [details]
environment

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:07:57 UTC]

Created attachment 548944 [details]
etc.portage.tbz2

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:08:00 UTC]

Created attachment 548946 [details]
logs.tbz2

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:08:03 UTC]

Created attachment 548948 [details]
temp.tbz2

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2018-10-02 15:08:06 UTC]

Created attachment 548950 [details]
www-servers:varnish-6.1.0:20181002-061317.log

[Comment 8 Oleksandr Trotsenko 2018-10-15 12:39:46 UTC]

Hi!

I confirm the same problem and `emerge --oneshot dev-python/sphinx` solved the problem. Varnish 6.1.0 successfully builds and runs afterwords.

I'll try to make a pull request with a fix.

[Comment 9 Anthony Basile 2018-10-15 13:54:17 UTC]

(In reply to Oleksandr Trotsenko from comment #8)
> Hi!
> 
> I confirm the same problem and `emerge --oneshot dev-python/sphinx` solved
> the problem. Varnish 6.1.0 successfully builds and runs afterwords.
> 
> I'll try to make a pull request with a fix.

This is an easy fix. Let me know if this works for you.  If it isn't, please reopen the bug.



commit 3ccfdb20b3c2e3fd93cbb9789a8eb6ae1825d508 (HEAD -> master)
Author: Anthony G. Basile <[e-mail]>
Date:   Mon Oct 15 09:52:31 2018 -0400

    www-servers/varnish: depend on dev-python/sphinx, fix bug #667574
    
    - Thanks to Oleksandr Trotsenko <[e-mail]>
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony G. Basile <[e-mail]>
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.49, Repoman-2.3.10

[Comment 10 Oleksandr Trotsenko 2018-10-17 04:36:28 UTC]

Oh nice, I was about to code the fix myself now and after pulling gentoo/master I saw the fix was already there.

I have just emerged the latest varnish from gentoo/master and it worked.

Thanks :)