This came up while trying to emerge wine with USE="doc" (see bug #71697)... In a roundabout way, docbook2txt calls /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/backends/txt, which in order to parse HTMLish things into text tries lynx, then links, then w3m, and then elinks before giving up. If lynx is installed, it works fine.. but if lynx is not installed but links is, then the script bombs because links (actually a symlink to /usr/bin/links2) does not accept "-dump" as an argument. Workaround: install lynx. Perhaps the docbook-sgml-utils ebuild should depend on lynx? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C lynx 2. emerge links 3. emerge docbook-sgml-utils 4. docbook2txt foo.sgml (or) 4. USE="doc" emerge wine Actual Results: [...] docbook2txt wine-devel.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#html Working on: /var/tmp/portage/wine-20041019-r3/work/wine-20041019/documentation/wine-devel.sgml Unknown option -dump make: *** [wine-devel.txt] Error 9 [...] Expected Results: >>> app-emulation/wine-20041019-r3 merged. >>> Recording app-emulation/wine in "world" favorites file... >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr codecs crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dga dio directfb divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 emacs encode esd ethereal exif f77 faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glx gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers jabber jack java jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit ladcca lcms lesstif libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod ming mitshm mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn mysql mysqli nas ncurses nls nptl odbc ofx oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl php pic pie png pnp posix ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl session shared sharedmem simplexml slang slp sndfile snmp soap sockets sox spell sse ssl svg svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 videos wmf wxwindows x86 xanim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zlib video_cards_savage"
Fixed in CVS. links doesn't have dump feature, so I simply removed it from txt backends. (This is a bug in upstream) Thanks for the bug report.
