Bug 837776 – sys-apps/man-db-2.10.2-r1 fails tests on MUSL

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2022-04-11 06:59:51 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: sys-apps/man-db-2.10.2-r1 fails tests on MUSL.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: tinderbox_musl)

NOTE:
This machine uses MUSL libc

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-04-11 06:59:54 UTC]

Created attachment 769976 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-04-11 06:59:55 UTC]

Created attachment 769979 [details]
1-test-suite.log

1-test-suite.log

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-04-11 06:59:56 UTC]

Error(s) that match a know pattern:


FAIL: man-recode-in-place
FAIL: man-recode-suffix
FAIL: manconv-coding-tags
FAIL: manconv-guess-from-encoding
FAIL: manconv-incomplete-char-at-eof
FAIL: manconv-odd-combinations

[Comment 4 Carlos 2023-08-26 19:06:05 UTC]

The following line on the test logs

    manconv: iconv_open ("UTF-8//IGNORE", "EUC-JP"): Invalid argument

is related to man-db using the glibc-specific suffix //IGNORE in many iconv operations.

By adding an Alpine patch[1], I've got most of the tests mentioned here passing (all except manconv-odd-combinations, which seems to hang forever). In addition, it makes man-db on musl able to handle pages that explicitly specify an encoding, like app-doc/eclass-man-pages.

[1] https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/man-db/ignore.patch