Bug 74391 – sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2 fails to build

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jason Fritcher 2004-12-14 08:49:09 UTC]

I'm installing Gentoo starting from stage 1. As part of stage 2, it emerges groff which is failing with the error messages below. It appears that it is trying to run groff to convert some manpages, but its trying to run it from /usr/bin instead of out of the working directory.

The machine was booted with a Knoppix 3.7 CD using the 2.6 kernel, incase anyone wonders about some of the emerge info below.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install stage 1.
2. emerge system
3. Groff dies when it tries to build.

Actual Results:  
Making groff_mom.n from groff_mom.man
make[2]: Entering directory
/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/doc'
makeinfo -I. ./groff.texinfo
GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_BIN_PATH=;
export GROFF_BIN_PATH; /usr/bin/groff
-F/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/font
-F/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/font
-M/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/tmac
-M/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/tmac -M. -Tps -mom
examples/letter.mom >examples/letter.ps
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/groff: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [examples/letter.ps] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory
/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/contrib/mom'
make[1]: *** [contrib/mom] Error 2
GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_BIN_PATH=;
export GROFF_BIN_PATH; sed -e "s;@VERSION@;1.19.1;" meref.me |
/usr/bin/groff -M/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/tmac
-M/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/tmac
-F/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/font
-F/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/font -Upet -ww -Tps
-ge-me >meref.ps
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/groff: No such file or directory
sed: couldn't write 6 items to stdout: Broken pipe
make[2]: *** [meref.ps] Error 127
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Making groff_mdoc.n from groff_mdoc.man
Making groff_trace.n from groff_trace.man
make[2]: Leaving directory
/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/contrib/groffer'
Making groff_www.n from groff_www.man
make[2]: Leaving directory
/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/tmac'
make[2]: Leaving directory
/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.19.1-r2/work/groff-1.19.1/doc'
make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2



Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf:
Automake:
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
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="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="aalib acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bzlib cdr crypt
curl doc encode flac gdbm gif gmp gnutls imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mime
ming mmap mmx mng mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis pam pcre pdflib perl png
pnp posix python quicktime readline samba slang sockets spell sse ssl svg
tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xsl zlib"

[Comment 1 Jason Fritcher 2004-12-14 09:11:32 UTC]

This bug is resolved for me. I resynced my portage tree, tried the build again and it worked this time.

[Comment 2 Jason Fritcher 2004-12-14 09:26:28 UTC]

Other people still appear to be having the problem, so I'm gonna reopen the ticket for them to continue on with.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-12-14 12:09:25 UTC]

they need to sync their tree too, this has been fixed in cvs already