Bug 921196 – app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4 fails tests with sys-apps/groff (an.tmac:VCR.7:189: warning: tbl preprocessor failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE macro called with TW register undefined))

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paolo Pedroni 2024-01-02 12:34:50 UTC]

Created attachment 881264 [details]
docbook2X-0.8.8-r4:20240102-122308.log.gz

/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all VCR.7 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all docbook2manxml.1 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all vermeulen.3 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all leidert-example.1 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all sgmlnorm.1 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all statgrab.3 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all sg_init.2 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
an.tmac:VCR.7:189: warning: tbl preprocessor failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE macro called with
 TW register undefined)
make[2]: *** [Makefile:482: VCR.7] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'VCR.7'
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl docbook2manxml.1
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl vermeulen.3
/usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 -z -w all sgml2xml.1 2>&1 | grep "warning: " ; test $? -eq 1 
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl leidert-example.1
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl statgrab.3
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl sgmlnorm.1
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl sg_init.2
/usr/bin/perl ./../htest-man.pl sgml2xml.1
rm leidert-example.mxml VCR.mxml vermeulen.mxml statgrab.mxml sgmlnorm.mxml sg_init.mxml sgml2xml.mxml docbook2manxml.mxml
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4/work/docbook2X-0.8.8/test/refentry'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:336: check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4/work/docbook2X-0.8.8/test'
make: *** [Makefile:409: check-recursive] Error 1
 * ERROR: app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4::gentoo failed (test phase):
 *   Make check failed. See above for details.

# emerge --info =app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4
Portage 3.0.59 (python 3.11.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd/merged-usr, gcc-13, glibc-2.37-r7, 6.1.67-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
                         System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.1.67-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Ryzen_7_5700G_with_Radeon_Graphics-with-glibc2.37
KiB Mem:    65119636 total,  10292672 free
KiB Swap:   67108860 total,  66301948 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:15:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: b815d018d5d2e70ea18b13c34e8f93471d9dc18b
sh dash 0.5.12
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.41 p2) 2.41.0
distcc 3.4 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 4.8.3 [disabled]
app-misc/pax-utils:        1.3.5::gentoo
app-shells/bash:           5.1_p16-r6::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:      2.3.3-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:             5.38.2-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:           3.11.7::gentoo, 3.12.1::gentoo
dev-lang/rust:             1.71.1::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:           4.8.3::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:            3.27.7::gentoo
dev-util/meson:            1.2.3::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:       2.14-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:          2.38::gentoo
sys-apps/systemd:          254.7::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:        2.71-r6::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:        1.16.5-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:        2.41-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5::gentoo
sys-devel/clang:           16.0.6::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:             13.2.1_p20230826::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:      2.11::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:         2.4.7-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/lld:             16.0.6::gentoo
sys-devel/llvm:            16.0.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:            4.4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers:  6.1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:            2.37-r7::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    volatile: True
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 

x-portage
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0
    volatile: True

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
AR="/usr/bin/gcc-ar"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -frecord-gcc-switches -march=znver3 -ftree-vectorize -flto=8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -frecord-gcc-switches -march=znver3 -ftree-vectorize -flto=8"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going y --with-bdeps y"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -frecord-gcc-switches -march=znver3 -ftree-vectorize -flto=8"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg-live compress-build-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms sign split-elog split-log strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -frecord-gcc-switches -march=znver3 -ftree-vectorize -flto=8"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://tux.rainside.sk/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.root.lu/ ftp://tux.rainside.sk/gentoo/ http://ftp.vectranet.pl/gentoo/"
LANG="it_IT.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common -ftree-vectorize -flto=8"
LEX="flex"
LINGUAS="it it_IT"
MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l16"
NM="/usr/bin/gcc-nm"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
RANLIB="/usr/bin/gcc-ranlib"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi activities adns alsa amd64 ao audiofile avif bash-completion bluetooth branding brotli bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli colord crypt css cups curl dbus declarative dga djvu dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif expat fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif gimp gles2 gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gui guile handbook heif iconv icu idn imagemagick imlib introspection ipv6 java javascript jbig jemalloc jpeg jpeg2k jpegxl kde kwallet lame lapack lcms libass libnotify libsamplerate libtirpc lm-sensors lua lz4 lzma lzo mad magic man mhash mmap mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg openal opencl opengl openmp opus pam pango pcre pdf pipewire plasma png policykit postscript ppds pulseaudio qml qt5 rdesktop readline recode samba screencast sctp sdl seccomp sndfile sockets sound speex spell sqlite ssl startup-notification svg symlink syslog systemd sysvipc taglib telemetry test test-rust theora threads tidy tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l vaapi vala verify-sig vim-syntax vnc vorbis vulkan wavpack wayland webp widgets win32codecs wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xft xinerama xml xpm xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zip zlib zstd" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2021" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel virmidi" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sha sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3" CURL_SSL="gnutls" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 ntrip navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="it en" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LLVM_TARGETS="AMDGPU" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres15" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_11" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeon radeonsi" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  ADDR2LINE, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

# emerge -1pqv =app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r4  USE="test"

[Comment 1 Sam James 2024-01-03 06:44:15 UTC]

I assume sys-apps/groff-1.23.0 related.

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-22 09:11:54 UTC]

tinderbox-stable has reproduced this issue in a STABLE environment with version 0.8.8-r4

[Comment 3 ernsteiswuerfel 2025-03-27 00:16:21 UTC]

Created attachment 922982 [details]
build.log (ppc64, 0.8.8-r4)

Same on ppc64.