Re: [gentoo-user] ...again compile problems due to texinfo...

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:44 PM,  <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
> On 06/29 12:24, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:06 PM,  <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > previously the compilation of glibc failed, because docs
>> > cpuld not be build.
>> > This was caused in the context of texinfo.
>> > "Solved" was this by not building the docs via
>> > deinstallation of texinfo temporarily.
>> >
>> > No screen jumps over the edge and again texinfo seems
>> > to cause this:
>> >
>> >>>> Source configured.
>> >>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/work/screen-4.6.0 ...
>> > make -j6 comm.h term.h
>> > AWK=gawk CC="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE" srcdir=. sh ./comm.sh
>> > AWK=gawk srcdir=. sh ./term.sh
>> > make -j6 osdef.h
>> > CPP="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E -DMAXWIN=100 -DNONETHACK -DETCSCREENRC='"/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"'" srcdir=. sh ./osdef.sh
>> > make -j6 -C doc screen.info
>> > make: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/work/screen-4.6.0/doc'
>> > makeinfo ./screen.texinfo -o screen.info
>> > ./screen.texinfo:3154: `@end' expected `deffn', but saw `example'
>> > ./screen.texinfo:3154: unmatched `@end example'
>> > ./screen.texinfo:3156: unmatched `@end deffn'
>> > make: *** [Makefile:31: screen.info] Error 1
>> > make: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/work/screen-4.6.0/doc'
>> >  * ERROR: app-misc/screen-4.6.0::gentoo failed (compile phase):
>> >  *   emake failed
>> >  *
>> >  * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=app-misc/screen-4.6.0::gentoo'`,
>> >  * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=app-misc/screen-4.6.0::gentoo'`.
>> >  * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/temp/build.log'.
>> >  * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/temp/environment'.
>> >  * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/work/screen-4.6.0'
>> >  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/work/screen-4.6.0'
>> >  *
>> >  * The following package has failed to build, install, or execute postinst:
>> >  *
>> >  *  (app-misc/screen-4.6.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file:
>> >  *   '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/screen-4.6.0/temp/build.log'
>> >  *
>> >
>> >  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
>> >  * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with
>> >  * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information.
>> >
>> >
>> > How can I fix this ... by fixing it and not by uninstalling texinfo ?
>> > ;)
>>
>> Yeah, texinfo is very broken on your system. Some things to check for:
>>
>> Any oddly set USE flags on sys-apps/texinfo (maybe USE="-nls")?
>> Custom patches in /etc/portage/patches?
>> Run perl-cleaner --all
>>
>
> This is the contents of /etc/portage/patches
>
> /etc/portage/patches/sys-apps
> /etc/portage/patches/sys-apps/v86d-0.1.10
> /etc/portage/patches/sys-apps/v86d-0.1.10/v86d-atomic_t.patch
> /etc/portage/patches/sys-libs
> /etc/portage/patches/sys-libs/libcap
> /etc/portage/patches/sys-libs/libcap/libcap-patch
>
> My useflags are:
> USE="nvidia X lua sdl mp3 flac jack alsa gtk cairo sndfile qt3support kpathsea gif tga jpeg png jpeg2k mad dvb dvdr encode lzo bzip2 ogg sox v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 x265 zsh-completion -hal -lirc"
>
> Seems not to be THAT weird, isn't it?
>
> I am running perl-cleaner now...as I did several times in the attempt
> to fix the first ransomtexinfo....;)

My only other guess is that you have some environment variable set
that causes makeinfo to behave differently than it normally would.