[Solved] "XPath error : Undefined variable" ;kaffeine etc

vespaman

I'm having serious trouble with a few emerge, such as klibido, kaffeine among others. Basically the errors looks like this;

compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/chunk-common.xsl line 289 element if
xsl:if : could not compile test expression 'not($recursive)'
XPath error : Undefined variable
not($recursive)

.. and there's a lot of them!

I found another thread which dealt with XPath error, suggesting there where some trouble with libgpg-error, so I re-emerged that one as well. I also tried USE -doc without success.

I'm lost with this one. Any takers?

Edit:

I found the solution; updating (emerging) libxslt.
Mod edit: See also bug 105297. --kallamej

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anz · Apprentice Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Vienna

Dear vespaman,
thanks alot for your tip - I had similar troubles with the "XPath error" when trying to update k3b (version 0.12.4a).
After updating the libxslt the problem was gone!
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al1ta · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 77

for me the problem is involved with the following....

http://k3b.plainblack.com/message-board/compile-of-latest-svn-version-fails-again..

It seems that it will be resolved updating kde from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2

so we have to wait the kde 3.4.2 ebuild....

zendmaster · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:43 am Post subject:

I was having the same error when updating K3b. Emerging libxslt worked for me. Thanks.

emanuelgreisen · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 6

Worked for me too (Kdevelop, kde and other kde-things would not compile) Now I just have two questions

1. Does any of you know how to tell the KDE-developers about this, they should change their use-flags to reflect the required libxslt.

2. Since I was building kdevelop, the docs are one of the last things to be build (and 3 hours of compiling will be lost if I start over). Can I somehow restart where the making of Kdevelop stopped ? I know I can go the the /var/..../.../... directory an run the "make && make install" manually, but this will not inject kdevelop correctly (I think) and it will not automatically uninstall my previous version. Anyone know a smart trick ?
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emanuelgreisen · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 6

Ok, I figured it out.

Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:39 am Post subject:

Since I can no longer post in the previous thread because it was a duplicate of this, thank you to the moderator for answering my question.
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Zee · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:57 am Post subject:

I could emerge kdebase-startkde. Upgrading libxslt did the trick for me. Why isn't libxslt set up as a dependency for kdebase-startkde?

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siroxo · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 62

This also helped me get a new version of liboil compiled.
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PurpleSkunk · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks !!

Re-emerging libxslt solved my problem (error compiling glib-2.8.6) :lol:

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