Bug 809428

Summary:	sys-devel/gettext fails to cross-compile
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Sachau <tommy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835766
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Description Thomas Sachau gentoo-dev

2021-08-21 16:56:22 UTC

In src_configure, it is defined that for none-native ABIs, it only builds runtime, but in src_install it does an unconditional rm *.html independent from the ABI. So for none-native ABIs, this will fail due to missing html files.

Simple fix: The rm call should also only be run for the native ABI.

Comment 1 David Seifert gentoo-dev

2021-08-21 19:01:26 UTC

This sounds like a portage-multilib bug, without any additional info.

Comment 2 Thomas Sachau gentoo-dev

2021-09-19 07:55:56 UTC

This is an issue for any external tool that cross-compiles the package (like cross-toolchain, prefix and multilib-portage, check bug 711590 for ncurses as an example). I for myself and for multilib-portage can workaround this by setting COMPLETE_MULTILIB=yes in the environment.

The easiest way to fix this for everyone (as docs should the the same for any target ABI) would be to use 'if multilib_is_native_abi; then  rm "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/*.html || die ; fi' to only remove the files when they are actually installed.

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2021-09-20 14:24:16 UTC

I believe the only way for this to happen is if src_install is invoked more than once. This would not happen under normal circumstances.

Please attach a build log demonstrating the problem.