Bug 50766 – Gnucash compiles, but gets stuck creating documentation

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Colin Fox 2004-05-11 09:49:07 UTC]

When I try to emerge gnucash (1.8.8), the app compiles ok, but when we get to the documentation creation stage it gets stuck. Here's the last thing I see on the command-line before it 'hangs':
...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
if test -r help-search-index.db; then \
rm -f help-search-index.db; \
fi
./build-help-index \
./dbadd \
./help-search-index.db \
../help/C/gnucash-help/*.html \
../guide/C/gnucash-guide/*.html;


It never gets past this. If I hit CTRL-C, I get about 100 copies of:
Error opening database ./help-search-index.db: Invalid argument
Error opening database ./help-search-index.db: Invalid argument
Error opening database ./help-search-index.db: Invalid argument
<...>

followed by:

make[1]: *** [install-am] Interrupt
make: *** [install-recursive] Interrupt
 
/usr/portage/app-office/gnucash/gnucash-1.8.8.ebuild: src_install aborted; exiting.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gnucash
2.
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[Comment 1 Miroslav Šulc 2004-05-17 05:19:03 UTC]

It seems this is solved in version 1.8.9.

[Comment 2 Yi Quang (RETIRED) 2004-05-17 18:05:27 UTC]

I will close this for now then, hopefully 1.8.9 can be pushed to stable soon enough.  

[Comment 3 Jonathan Rogers 2004-06-29 12:38:50 UTC]

I don't really see how the availability of a newer unstable ebuild fixes this one. I have exactly the same problem that Colin did except that I get "Error writing data." if I wait long enough before hitting Ctrl-C. The odd thing is that I've emerged the exact same version before (back in January). I've been using 1.8.8 with no problems except that recently, revdep-rebuild wanted to rebuild it. Did the ebuild change without a version bump, or is it a deeper Portage issue?