gimp-help emerge failure

[dilbot]

gimp-help emerge fails. Maybe this is more of a python problem than a gimp problem.

configure: checking for a Python 3 interpreter with version >= 3.6.0 among: python3 python python3.10 python3.9 python3.8 python3.7 python3.6
checking python3 version... 3.12.1
checking whether python3 version >= 3.6.0... yes
checking if python3 can import module libxml2... no
checking python version... 3.12.1
checking whether python version >= 3.6.0... yes
checking if python can import module libxml2... no
checking python3.10 version... 3.10.13
checking whether python3.10 version >= 3.6.0... yes
checking if python3.10 can import module libxml2... no
.....
* ERROR: app-doc/gimp-help-2.10.34-r2::gentoo failed (configure phase):
* econf failed


here's the emerge --info for this one:

Portage 3.0.57 (python 3.11.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-13, glibc-2.37-r7, 6.1.67-gentoo x86_64)
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System Settings
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System uname: Linux-6.1.67-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-2100_CPU_@_3.10GHz-with-glibc2.37
KiB Mem: 16370640 total, 188652 free
KiB Swap: 33246204 total, 29368360 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:30:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: c23d15ecafdc6423b7c814f66929506d5d1f6693
sh bash 5.1_p16-r6
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.41 p2) 2.41.0
app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.5::gentoo
app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16-r6::gentoo
dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl: 5.38.0-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python: 3.10.13::gentoo, 3.11.6::gentoo, 3.12.1::gentoo
dev-lang/rust: 1.71.1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake: 3.27.7::gentoo
dev-util/meson: 1.2.3::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.14-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc: 0.48::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.38::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r7::gentoo, 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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
priority: -1000
volatile: False
sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3
sync-rsync-extra-opts:
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /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/php/apache2-php8.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php8.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cl
i-php8.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/fpm-php8.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/phpdbg-php8.1/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
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_D
ATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
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ews parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv us
ersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="C.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LEX="flex"
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=/loc
al --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 apache2 apng bzip2 cairo cgi cli crypt cups dbus dri elogind ffmpeg fortran fpm gd gdbm gentoo-vm gtk heif iconv icu imagemagick ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k libtirpc motif mplayer multilib m
ysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nss ogg opengl openmp openssl pam pcre pcre32 pdf php png postproc qt5 readline seccomp secure-delete split-usr ssl svg test-rust text unicode webp x265 xattr xml zlib" ABI
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us unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc"
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ublox" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_
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Unset: ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD
, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RANLIB, READEL
F, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

[fedeliallalinea]

Can you post emerge -pv libxml2 and grep -ri python /etc/portage output?
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[dilbot]

emerge -pv libxml2:

[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.11.5:2::gentoo USE="ftp icu python readline -debug -examples -lzma -static-libs -test" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 -python3_10 (-python3_12)" 0 KiB

grep -ri python /etc/portage:

- no output

[fedeliallalinea]

You can post also emerge -cp dev-lang/python:3.10 command output?
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Questions are guaranteed in life; Answers aren't.

[dilbot]

emerge -cp dev-lang/python:3.10

- no real output, just this:

Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
>>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose
Packages installed: 1086
Packages in world: 277
Packages in system: 49
Required packages: 1086
Number to remove: 0

[fedeliallalinea]

Strange your emerge --info says python:3.10 is installed while depclean says otherwise.

[grknight]

[Hu]

[dilbot]

Thanks everyone.

If I force this with USE="python_targets_python3_12" emerge libxml2, and
then emerge gimp-help I get:

checking python version... 3.12.1
checking whether python version >= 3.6.0... yes
checking if python can import module libxml2... no

[Hu]

Yes, that is expected from your earlier output. As I mentioned above, PYTHON_TARGETS does not allow python3_12 at this time on that system, so your emerge libxml2 changed nothing.

This looks like it might be a bug, in my opinion. python3_12 is masked:

[sam_]

The issue is that the ebuild's pkg_setup doesn't call python-any-r1_pkg_setup which is responsible in this case for picking a Python which matches the dependencies, rather than some other Python. Note that the ebuild uses python-any-r1 and hence PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET are mostly irrelevant (apart from what is enabled for libxml2 which is sort of tangential as the ebuild dependencies ensure at least one libxml2 is fine, but it wasn't checking if the Python used matches it). The dependencies are correct otherwise.

I'll fix that now.

(With regard to unmasking: no, it needs a consistent depgraph in stable wrt the USE flag and we're not quite there yet. It'll be done soon. dev-lang/python:3.12 being stable is necessary but not sufficient.)

[Hu]

I was relying on dilbot's output above. I see now looking at the gimp-help configure script that if $PYTHON is set, it will use that instead of the built-in version list. Presumably (I don't need this package, so did not check) your change to cause $PYTHON to be set to point to Python 3.11 will cause gimp-help to try python3.11, which dilbot's output suggests will be able to load libxml2. dilbot: if you sync to include sam_'s change, does the build work for you now?

I can see the need for a consistent dependency graph for that flag, and thus the need not to remove the mask yet. However, as someone who does normally deal with the graph, the mask message reads to me as if stabilizing python3.12 is a sufficient condition for removal of the mask, hence my prior post.

[dilbot]

gimp-help is emerging OK after sync with new changes. Thanks!


* gimp-help-2.10.34.tar.bz2 BLAKE2B SHA512 size ... [ ok ]
* Checking whether python3_11 is suitable ...
* dev-lang/python:3.11 ... [ ok ]
* python_check_deps ...
* dev-libs/libxml2[python,python_targets_python3_11(-)] ... [ ok ]
* Using python3.11 to build (via PYTHON_COMPAT iteration)

[fedeliallalinea]