Bug 252164

Summary:	Gnome metapackage fails to build: needs libxml2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steven Moix <moixs>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Alpha
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steven Moix 2008-12-22 11:07:26 UTC

En "emerge gnome" metapackage install crashes when it comes to compile the gnome-user-docs package. It relies on libxml2 which isn't installed as a dependency.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Gentoo minimal CD 2008.0 on Alpha (probably on other architectures too)
2. Run emerge gnome

Actual Results:  
emerge crashes during the gnome-user-docs compilation

Expected Results:  
Compile successffully

running "emerge libxml2" before the installation solves the problem. It's probably a build require dependency issue. Put libxml2 as a gnome-user-docs requirement solves the problem.

Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-22 13:24:49 UTC

please actually post useful information, emerge --info and build.log for example.