Open office fails to build on amd64 with error: ... checking for genbrk... no configure: error: \genbrk\ not found in $PATH, install the icu development tool \genbrk"" ... FIX: Emerge dev-libs/icu and retry openoffice build Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $> emerge app-office/openoffice 2. Wait patiently Actual Results: Build Crashes with error: checking for genbrk... no configure: error: \genbrk\ not found in $PATH, install the icu development tool \genbrk"" make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1 * * ERROR: app-office/openoffice-2.3.1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 5392: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * make || die "Build failed" * The die message: * Build failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.1/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.1/temp/environment'. * !!! When you file a bug report, please include the following information: GENTOO_VM=blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 CLASSPATH="" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03" JAVACFLAGS="-source 1.4 -target 1.4" COMPILER="" and of course, the output of emerge --info Expected Results: OpenOffice builds successfully To fix, first emerge dev-libs/icu then emerge app-office/openoffice
Created attachment 144128 [details] emerge --info Emerge --info for affected computer
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 206889 ***