Bug 591386

Summary:	app-doc/doxygen-1.8.11-r2: ninja: error: build.ninja:1385: bad $-escape (literal $ must be written as $$)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marek Szuba <marecki>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matthias Maier <tamiko>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	franz.trischberger
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	557992

Description Marek Szuba archtester

2016-08-16 10:31:08 UTC

The latest stable version of app-doc/doxygen does not build with CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR set to 'ninja', with the compile stage failing immediately with the error mentioned in the summary. The offending line in build.ninja is

COMMAND = cd /var/tmp/portage/app-doc/doxygen-1.8.11-r2/work/doxygen-1.8.11/src && /usr/bin/flex $(LEX_FLAGS) -PscannerYY -o/var/tmp/portage/app-doc/doxygen-1.8.11-r2/work/doxygen-1.8.11_build/generated_src/scanner.cpp scanner.l

suggesting the way flags are passed to flex is currently not Ninja-compatible.

There doesn't seem to be an upstream bug for this yet.

Comment 1 Franz Trischberger 2016-09-21 09:55:26 UTC

This seems to be fixed in 1.8.12, but I think this should get fixed in stable and this issue should block bug 557992

To fix the issue in stable ebuilds simply add
CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR="emake"
before inheriting cmake-utils.

Comment 2 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2017-01-17 13:41:36 UTC

Thanks for the report!


commit a3b422bb8f238e832d5978ae33d5658fc58600f4
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 17 07:38:33 2017 -0600

    app-doc/doxygen: force emake for 1.8.10,1.8.11, bug #591386
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.0, Repoman-2.3.1