Bug 944439 – games-roguelike/nethack-3.6.7 fails to compile: troff:tmac.n:762: error: cannot load font S for emboldening

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-11-22 10:12:12 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: games-roguelike/nethack-3.6.7 fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: tinderbox_musl)
System: MUSL-SYSTEM (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#MUSL)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0014

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-11-22 10:12:13 UTC]

Created attachment 911512 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-11-22 10:12:13 UTC]

Error(s) that match a know pattern in addition to what has been reported in the summary:


/bin/sh: line 1: ../util/makedefs: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 1: col: command not found
troff:tmac.n:762: error: cannot load font 'S' for emboldening

[Comment 3 ernsteiswuerfel 2025-03-08 15:29:21 UTC]

Created attachment 920368 [details]
build.log (ppc64, 3.6.7)

[Comment 4 ernsteiswuerfel 2025-03-09 23:42:03 UTC]

The upstream discussion concluded that one part of the problem is that /usr/bin/col is missing.

Turns out /usr/bin/col belongs to sys-apps/util-linux and is built on the glibc profile but _not_ on musl profiles. How's that?

[Comment 5 ernsteiswuerfel 2025-03-12 09:46:39 UTC]

Created attachment 920605 [details, diff]
fix Guidebook dependency; add col alternative

Fixed by upstream commit: https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/47b4a956a1a2084a12364546b0544f2e309abf89