Bug 46926 – ghc-6.2.1 compile crashes while building the documentation

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description glowwormy 2004-04-06 00:47:23 UTC]

The emerge of ghc-6.2.1 failes with the following errors:

==fptools== make ps - --no-print-directory -r;
 in /var/tmp/portage/ghc-6.2.1/work/ghc-6.2.1/ghc/docs/users_guide
------------------------------------------------------------------------
../../../glafp-utils/docbook/db2dvi -d /var/tmp/portage/ghc-6.2.1/work/ghc-6.2.1/docs/fptools-both.dsl   users_guide.sgml
Using stylesheet: "/var/tmp/portage/ghc-6.2.1/work/ghc-6.2.1/docs/fptools-both.dsl"
OUTPUT FILE NAME IS users_guide.dvi
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
dvips users_guide.dvi -o users_guide.ps
This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
make[3]: *** [users_guide.ps] Fehler 1
make[2]: *** [ps] Fehler 1
make[1]: *** [ps] Fehler 1
make: *** [ps] Fehler 1

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/ghc-6.2.1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 121, Exitcode 2
!!! make ps failed


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge ghc



Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.4-rc1-love3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.4-rc1-love3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1
distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga doc dvd
encode esd faad foomaticdb gdbm gif ginac gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci
imap imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql nas
ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt qtmt
quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex
truetype usb v4l x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Andres Loeh (RETIRED) 2004-04-08 04:04:29 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40227 ***

[Comment 2 Andres Loeh (RETIRED) 2004-04-08 04:05:29 UTC]

Please have a look at the other bug. Although it's for a different package,
I am convinced it is the same issue.

ks