Bug 73831 – gstreamer-0.8.7 emerge fails when building documentation (Tex stymied)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Paul Hirst 2004-12-08 12:30:01 UTC]

emerge of gstreamer-0.8.7 fails with:

*** Generating PS output ***
cd build && docbook2ps -o .. faq.xml
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.7/work/gstreamer-0.8.7/docs/faq'
*** Generating HTML output ***
head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' since this will be removed in the future
Using catalogs: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.2/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/opensp-1.5/OpenSP/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/dsssl/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.12/docbook-utils.dsl#html
Working on: /tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.7/work/gstreamer-0.8.7/docs/faq/build/faq.xml
head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' since this will be removed in the future
Using catalogs: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.2/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/opensp-1.5/OpenSP/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/dsssl/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.12/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working on: /tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.7/work/gstreamer-0.8.7/docs/faq/build/faq.xml
Done.
Copying .css files: base.css
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
make[3]: *** [faq.ps] Error 9
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.7/work/gstreamer-0.8.7/docs/faq'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.7/work/gstreamer-0.8.7/docs'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.7/work/gstreamer-0.8.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.7 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 63, Exitcode 2
!!! compile failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gstreamer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge failed

Expected Results:  
sucessfull emerge of gsteramer-0.8.7

emerge info:

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups doc dvd
emacs encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib jpeg lcms libg++ libgda libwww mad mikmod
mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl
plotutils png postgres python quicktime readline scanner sdl slang snmp spell
sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"


I've seen some jadetex bugs which appear to fail with a different error message.
For the record: qpkg -I -v jadetex gives: app-text/jadetex-3.12 *

This can be worked arround by specifying UDE="-doc".

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-12-08 13:41:04 UTC]

this is a dupe, please search & dupe it yourself as an exercise

[Comment 2 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) 2006-01-05 05:58:20 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98029 ***