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

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

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Nuno Silva