Bug 116724

Summary:	nasm missing from gnumeric ebuild dependencies
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) <phils>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	GNOME Office (OBSOLETE) <gnome-office+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2005-12-25 11:54:00 UTC

The gnumeric ebuild does not list nasm as a dependency, because technically gnumeric does not have a software dependency upon nasm.  It does, however, have a build dependency; nasm is required in order to compile gnumeric.  Therefore, on a new Gentoo installation that does not yet have nasm, 'emerge gnumeric' will fail until the user performs a manual 'emerge nasm'.

Comment 1 Joe McCann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-07 11:01:53 UTC

I don't see where gnumeric requires anything from the nasm package and you offer no error messages etc..Please reopen if you have further information.

Comment 2 Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2006-01-13 07:51:15 UTC

To reproduce this, I unmerged nasm, since it was not present in my Gentoo installation before first attempting to emerge gnumeric.  I then emerged gnumeric again, and it completed.  This means that I apparently didn't read carefully enough, and it was one of the dependencies to Gnumeric that requires nasm to build but doesn't list it as a dependency.

Unfortunately, I don't know which one, and since emerge -C does not remove dependencies, at my current state of Gentoo knowledge this means I can reproduce the problem only by burning down my Gentoo install and starting over in the same way.  Naturally, I don't really want to do this.

If anyone tracking this bug is bringing up a new Gentoo install, please try emerging gnumeric on a system that does not yet have either gnome or nasm built, to try to get in the entire dependency tree and see where it breaks.