Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

[John Covici]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:36:27 -0400,
Nuno Silva wrote:
>
> On 2021-07-19, John Covici wrote:
>
> > Hi.  I am having major problems with my world update started a couple
> > of days ago.  There is a long history which I won't go into now, but
> > what I have immediately is that media-libs/harfbuzz will not install
> > and even though I have --keep-going, portage won't let me continue.
> >
> > Here is the last part of the build log:
> >
> > /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1/work/harfbuzz-2.8.2/docs/../src/hb-unicode.cc:180:
> > warning: unknown annotation "Xconstructor" in documentation for
> > hb_unicode_funcs_create.^M
> > See harfbuzz-undeclared.txt for the list of undeclared symbols.^M
> > ./harfbuzz-unused.txt:1: warning: 46 unused declarations.They should
> > be added to harfbuzz-sections.txt in the appropriate place.^M
> > ^M
> > ERROR: Error in gtkdoc helper script:^M
> > ^M
> > ERROR: ['/usr/bin/gtkdoc-mkhtml',
> > '--path=/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1/work/harfbuzz-2.8.2/docs:/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1/work/harfbuzz-2.8.2-abi_x86_64.amd64/docs',
> > 'harfbuzz', '../harfbuzz-docs.xml'] \failed with status 6^M
> > ^M
> > --- stderr ---^M
> > ^M
>
>
> As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the
> following as a workaround?:
>
>     USE=-doc emerge -1a media-libs/harfbuzz
>
> Gentoo bug 704550[1], makes me wonder if it's worth a try trying to
> update gtk-doc before harfbuzz, or is it already updated?
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704550

OK, I have  not specified doc, but apparently its in a use flag, so I
will try that and see if it does anything -- thanks.
Well, no joy, I think -doc was already selected because no * was after
it and I get the same error as before.

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