Bug 947707 – media-video/ffmpeg-6.1.2 fails to compile: Cant locate object method gdt via package Texinfo::Convert::HTML at t2h.pm line 255

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-08 07:56:07 UTC]

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

Issue: media-video/ffmpeg-6.1.2 fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: gcc15_tinderbox)
System: GCC-15-SYSTEM (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#GCC-15)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0014

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-08 07:56:08 UTC]

Created attachment 916094 [details]
build.log.xz

build log and emerge --info (compressed because it exceeds attachment limit, use 'xzless' to read it)

[Comment 2 Leonid Kopylov 2025-01-20 13:03:47 UTC]

Have same issue after system update - ffmpeg refuses to rebuild

[Comment 3 Leonid Kopylov 2025-01-20 13:05:00 UTC]

Created attachment 917130 [details]
build.log.xz

[Comment 4 Sven Eden 2025-01-21 07:37:29 UTC]

After downgrading sys-apps/texinfo to version 7.1.1 the build succeeds.
Issuing
   ebuild /usr/portage/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-6.1.2.ebuild merge
as root was enough, no full rebuild needed.


Also see:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/texinfo-7-2-looks-to-have-broken-texinfo-convert-html-4175745581/

Here is a patch for ffmpeg 7.1, maybe it works for 6.1.2, too.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ffmpeg/-/blob/main/fix_build_with_texinfo-7.2.patch?ref_type=heads

[Comment 5 Kostadin Shishmanov 2025-02-03 23:40:00 UTC]

*** Bug 949248 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Honza Macháček 2025-02-20 11:48:16 UTC]

(In reply to Sven Eden from comment #4)
> Here is a patch for ffmpeg 7.1, maybe it works for 6.1.2, too.
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ffmpeg/-/blob/main/
> fix_build_with_texinfo-7.2.patch?ref_type=heads

I can confirm this patch makes media-video/ffmpeg-6.1.2 build successfully on my system with sys-apps/texinfo-7.2 installed.

[Comment 7 Lukas Schmelting 2025-03-08 20:36:27 UTC]

*** Bug 950951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***