I've run into this before on another ebuild (as apparently have others), and the band-aid is to emerge with USE=-doc. This happened for me with emerge gstreamer. # emerge gstreamer <snip> cd build && docbook2ps -o .. faq.xml make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1/work/gstreamer-0.8.3/docs/faq' *** Generating HTML output *** head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' since this will be removed in the future head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' since this will be removed in the future Using catalogs: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.2/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/dsssl/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/opensp-1.5/OpenSP/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.12/docbook-utils.dsl#html Working on: /var/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1/work/gstreamer-0.8.3/docs/faq/build/faq.xml Using catalogs: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.0/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.1/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.2/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/dsssl/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog, /usr/share/sgml/opensp-1.5/OpenSP/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.12/docbook-utils.dsl#print Working on: /var/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1/work/gstreamer-0.8.3/docs/faq/build/faq.xml This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) make[3]: *** [faq.ps] Error 9 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Done. make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Copying .css files: base.css make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1/work/gstreamer-0.8.3/docs/faq' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1/work/gstreamer-0.8.3/docs' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1/work/gstreamer-0.8.3' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.3-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 65, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failed
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56817 ***