Bug 762790

Summary:	dev-perl/Alien-Gnuplot-1.33.0 fails to compile ( "could not parse a version number" )
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, kentnl
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709670
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-12-31 13:59:03 UTC

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: dev-perl/Alien-Gnuplot-1.33.0 fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: ci)

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-12-31 13:59:05 UTC

Created attachment 680437 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2021-01-24 04:42:11 UTC

This may require additional information to reproduce, as with Bug #709670

> >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/Alien-Gnuplot-1.33.0/work/Alien-Gnuplot-1.033 ...
>  * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker
>  * perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLMAN3DIR=none DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/Alien-Gnuplot-1.33.0/image/
> 
> Alien::Gnuplot: the executable file /usr/bin/gnuplot claims to be gnuplot, but 
> I could not parse a version number from its output.  Sorry, I give up.
> 
> 
> 
> Gnuplot seems to not exist on your system, and you set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT --
> so I'll try to install it for you.
> 
> Attempting to install/upgrade gnuplot on your system....
> 
> Trying yum...which: no yum in (/usr/lib/portage/python3.7/ebuild-helpers/xattr:/usr/lib/portage/python3.7/ebuild-helpers:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/11/bin)
> Trying apt-get...which: no apt-get in (/usr/lib/portage/python3.7/ebuild-helpers/xattr:/usr/lib/portage/python3.7/ebuild-helpers:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/11/bin)
> 
> 
> Couldn't find gnuplot, and couldn't get it from the standard package managers.
> I'd try to download the packages from sourceforge, but there are roadblocks that
> make it hard to automate.  
> 
> You can get gnuplot from the DOWNLOAD link here: "http://gnuplot.info".

Comment 3 David Haller 2021-01-24 10:55:17 UTC

Why don't you just add the provided patch? See:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/709670#c11

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2021-01-24 17:19:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 709670 ***