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Bug 219889 - app-text/po4a (0.33.3 and 0.34) fails to build
Summary: app-text/po4a (0.33.3 and 0.34) fails to build
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Perl team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 233669 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 275268
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Reported: 2008-05-01 00:06 UTC by Robert Bradbury
Modified: 2009-09-05 19:11 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
Log of ebuild of most recent po4a (po4a-0.33.3.lst,4.95 KB, text/plain)
2008-05-01 00:08 UTC, Robert Bradbury
Details
emerge log for po4a.txt (po4a.txt,6.31 KB, text/plain)
2008-05-04 11:51 UTC, J.C. Wren
Details

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Description Robert Bradbury 2008-05-01 00:06:23 UTC
Tried to build po4a-0.33.3 (as per Bug #195277).

Hangs after...
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =app-text/po4a-0.33.3


Actual Results:  
Hangs consuming lots of CPU

Expected Results:  
Should build without hanging
Comment 1 Robert Bradbury 2008-05-01 00:08:41 UTC
Created attachment 151481 [details]
Log of ebuild of most recent po4a

Here is the output of the emerge.  Emerge must be terminated after it or its child processes consume many CPU minutes.
Comment 2 David W Noon 2008-05-01 00:32:11 UTC
I can corroborate this result on an AMD64 system. The build goes into a CPU-bound loop.
Comment 3 Juergen Rose 2008-05-02 06:08:01 UTC
I have the same problem on several systems, e.g., I see at the terminal window
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Dia.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Dia.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Docbook.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Docbook.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/TeX.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::TeX.3pm
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml

Switching to an other window:

root@cheetah:/var/log(22)# genlop -c 
 Currently merging 7 out of 13
 * app-text/po4a-0.33.3 
       current merge time: 8 hours, 24 minutes and 25 seconds.
       ETA: any time now.
root@cheetah:/var/log(27)# ps -ef | grep po4a
...
root     24710 12322  0 03:23 ?        00:00:00 [po4a-0.33.3] sandbox "/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh" compile
root     24781 24775 98 03:23 ?        08:16:33 perl po4a --previous po/pod.cfg

I.e., 'perl po4a...' runs with 98% cpu utilization and does not come to an end.
Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-02 07:32:36 UTC
Please test with debug enabled:

cd /tmp
tar xzof /var/portage/distfiles/po4a_0.33.3.orig.tar.gz
chmod -fR a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w po4a-0.33.3
cd po4a-0.33.3
PERL5LIB=lib perl po4a --debug --verbose --previous po/pod.cfg

It takes about 10 seconds to finish here.
Comment 5 Juergen Rose 2008-05-02 11:07:21 UTC
At some computers it helps simply to repeat the 'emerge -uvD world' command.
At the second attempt 'perl po4a ...' was not going to the indefine loop after:

Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/TeX.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::TeX.3pm
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml

Regards Juergen

Comment 6 Juergen Rose 2008-05-03 05:36:22 UTC
I just had a system, which hangs at least three times at:
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/TeX.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::TeX.3pm
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml

Then I tried your hint (extracting to /tmp and PERL5LIB=lib perl po4a --debug --verbose --previous po/pod.cfg). It works as you said in some seconds.

After this, I tried 'emerge -uvD po4a'. Now it works too.
Comment 7 J.C. Wren 2008-05-04 11:51:13 UTC
Created attachment 151793 [details]
emerge log for po4a.txt

My experience was a little different.  Rather than a hang, I was seeing

Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml
Can't locate object method "initialize" via package "pod" at lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 341.
Died at /var/tmp/portage/app-text/po4a-0.33.3/work/po4a-0.33.3/_build/lib/My/Builder.pm line 112.
Comment 8 Robert Bradbury 2008-05-04 14:38:50 UTC
Tried the /tmp suggestion and that worked ok.

Q1: What version of perl are you folks using?  I am on v5.8.8.

Went back and started emerging older versions.
Can emerge po4a-0.21.
Can not emerge po4a-0.25.

It does seem to get a bit farther. The tail end of the log file is:
...
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/TeX.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::TeX.3pm
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml
XX Documentation pot file uptodate.
XX Documentation it.po uptodate.
XX Documentation pl.po uptodate.
XX Documentation ca.po uptodate.
XX Documentation fr.po uptodate.
XX Documentation es.po uptodate.
X Translate binary manpages to it
Died at /root2/var/tmp/portage/app-text/po4a-0.25/work/po4a-0.25/_build/lib/My/Builder.pm line 162.

The command running was:
perl po4a-translate -v -f pod -M utf-8 -L iso8859-1 -m po4a-gettextize -p po/pod/it.po -l blib/man/po4a-gettextize -a doc/addendum.it

Comment 9 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-07 09:32:17 UTC
I am not able to reproduce this. I am using perl-5.8.8 on a x86 system.

Are you all using a amd64 profile? Anyone using x86 having problems?
Comment 10 J.C. Wren 2008-05-07 10:42:58 UTC
perl-5.8.8 on x86 is failing for me.
Comment 11 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-31 15:16:08 UTC
po4a-0.34 is in the tree. Does this version help?
Comment 12 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-02 06:50:31 UTC
*** Bug 233669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Juergen Rose 2008-08-02 08:11:29 UTC
Again, while repeating 'emerge -uvDN' po4a-0.34 was emerged in 47 seconds.
Comment 14 J.C. Wren 2008-08-29 22:52:05 UTC
po4a-0.34 is failing the same way as in comment #7
Comment 15 J.C. Wren 2008-09-11 16:00:25 UTC
Still can't build po4a-0.34.  I've tried this on 5 different systems, and they all result in the error "Can't locate object method "initialize" via package "pod" at lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 341."

I used to be a Perl programmer of sorts, but it's been 5 or 6 years.  I took a stab at debugging this, but I couldn't figure out what package or module it was trying to call 'initialize' in.

All these systems have Perl 5.8.8, up-to-date CPAN trees (according to CPANs 'r' command), and run ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".  If there's anything else you'd like me to report to get this problem resolved, please let me know.
Comment 16 Juergen Rose 2009-04-09 11:23:30 UTC
And now the same problem with po4a-0.36, perl uses 80% of CPU and run more than eight hours:

root@cheetah:/root(34)# genlop -c

 Currently merging 14 out of 54

 * app-text/po4a-0.36 

And the last output is for several hour is:

Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Xhtml.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Xhtml.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Guide.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Guide.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Ini.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Ini.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Man.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Man.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Xml.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Xml.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Docbook.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Docbook.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/Dia.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::Dia.3pm
Manifying blib/lib/Locale/Po4a/TeX.pm -> blib/libdoc/Locale::Po4a::TeX.3pm
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml
Comment 17 Juergen Rose 2009-04-09 11:24:41 UTC
root@cheetah:/root(37)# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-rc8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-rc8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_1800+-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:00:02 +0000
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r15, 2.5.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config 
/usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fon
ts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ex
t-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.
d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rs
ync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo f
tp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=1
80 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/n4g /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/jokey /usr/local/
portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/suka /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs aiglx alsa amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiof
ile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bjam blas bluetooth bonobo boo boost branding bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdpa
ranoia cdr cgi chm cli corba cracklib cran crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus device-mapper dga dia divx djvu dlloader dmi doc dri ds3
490 dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 dynagraph eds effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo examples exif expat extra fam
 fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx galago gd gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glib glit
z gml gmp gnokii gnome gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened harness hddtemp h
df hdf5 hlapi http iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java jbig john jpeg jpeg2
k kde kde4 kdeprefix kerberos kexi keyring ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc lm_senso
rs lua lzo lzw mad maildir mailwrapper math matroska matrox midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg m
ozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network network
manager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs numarray numeric obex ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole opengl openmp pam pcre pda 
pdf perl plotutils plugins png posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks python qhull qt3 qt3suppo
rt qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl session slang slp sndfile s
nmp soup sox speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg sysfs t1lib tcl tcpd tex
 theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis webkit win32codecs wmf wxwindows x
86 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUG
INS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw mu
lti null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm 
authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav
_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio me
m_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status un
ique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse                " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="b
ayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" NETBEANS_MODULES="
ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga matrox vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSY
NC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 18 Juergen Rose 2009-05-01 10:25:31 UTC
Any news?

Now the compilation of realpath hangs:

root@condor:/root(57)# ps -ef | grep  po4a
root       312 32767 99 11:17 pts/0    01:06:39 perl /usr/bin/po4a --msgid-bugs-address realpath@packages.debian.org --package-name realpath --package-version 1.14 --copyright-holder=Robert Luberda (msgids) --previous -v --variable srcdir=../.. --variable builddir=_build po4a.cfg


root@condor:/root(58)# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 01 May 2009 09:00:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/dotnet /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/jokey /usr/local/portage/layman/lordvan /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs aiglx alsa amd64 amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bjam blas bluetooth bonobo boo boost branding bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli corba cracklib cran crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus device-mapper dga dia divx djvu dlloader dmi doc dri ds3490 dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 dynagraph eds effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo examples exif expat extra fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx galago gd gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glib glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnome-keyring gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http hvm iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipod ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java java5 java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kdeprefix kerberos kexi keyring kvm ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo lzw mad maildir mailwrapper math matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs numarray numeric nvidia obex ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole opengl openmp pae pam pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks python qhull qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl session slang slp smp sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg sysfs t1lib tcl tcpd tex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis webkit wmf wxwindows xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" DVB_CARDS="cx8800 cx88xx tda1004x saa713" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse                " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 19 Juergen Rose 2009-08-06 08:56:20 UTC
Any news?

Now the compilation of debhelper-7.3.9 does not complete, because 
perl /usr/bin/po4a -L UTF-8 /man/po4a/po4a.cfg
uses 97% cpu, runs for more than 96 min and seems not to finish.

Comment 20 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-09-05 07:07:39 UTC
Please test 0.36.4. We think it has a workaround.
Comment 21 Robert Bradbury 2009-09-05 12:34:26 UTC
Version 0.36.4 seems to work for me.

The hangup seemed to be an ever-growing memory/CPU consuming perl process when creating META.yml.  (This may have been the previously mentioned problem with po4a.cfg.)

It may be worth noting that during the build process the output appears to contain a number of messages of the form:
Wide character in print at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Man.pm line 456.
blib/man/pl/man3/Locale::Po4a::Text.3pm.pod:13: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding UTF-8"

I don't know whether that is significant but it doesn't appear to be a show-stopper.
Comment 22 David W Noon 2009-09-05 15:33:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> Please test 0.36.4. We think it has a workaround.

When I unmasked this release, the subsequent emerge wanted Perl 5.10.0, which has not even made ~x86 yet.
Comment 23 Robert Bradbury 2009-09-05 17:01:26 UTC
David, strange.  Are you on a non-x86 machine?  The po4a-0.36.4 ebuild simply wants dev-lang/perl so unless its a dependency dependency I don't see it.  It worked for me with perl-5.8.8-r5.
Comment 24 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-09-05 17:10:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #20)
> > Please test 0.36.4. We think it has a workaround.
> 
> When I unmasked this release, the subsequent emerge wanted Perl 5.10.0, which
> has not even made ~x86 yet.

The virtuals are already updated for perl-5.10.1. That means some packages can be provided by perl-5.10.1 *or* the perl-core package.

The problem is probably that you add a virtual/perl-* package to package.keywords but not the provider in perl-core. Then both, perl-5.10.1 and the perl-core package, are not visible and portage lists only the first, perl-5.10.1 in this case, provider.
Comment 25 David W Noon 2009-09-05 19:11:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #24)
> (In reply to comment #22)
> > (In reply to comment #20)
> > > Please test 0.36.4. We think it has a workaround.
> > 
> > When I unmasked this release, the subsequent emerge wanted Perl 5.10.0, which
> > has not even made ~x86 yet.
> 
> The virtuals are already updated for perl-5.10.1. That means some packages can
> be provided by perl-5.10.1 *or* the perl-core package.
> 
> The problem is probably that you add a virtual/perl-* package to
> package.keywords but not the provider in perl-core.

This was indeed the case.  I needed to add the perl-core packages for Module-Build and Test-Harness, as well as the virtuals.

All now works.