From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] texinfo 6.8
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:32:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8642ddac-24da-b16e-362e-b44a3fe91a6b@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9823441-4af2-8653-b48d-5a97a7c35603@dronecode.org.uk>
On 7/6/2021 7:59 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 05/07/2021 19:04, Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>
>> * texinfo-6.8-1
>> * texinfo-tex-6.8-1
>> * info-6.8-1
>>
>> Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce
>> output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf,
>> xml, etc.).
>>
>> This is an update to the latest upstream release. See
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Thanks for this update.
>
> This seems to break building the cygwin documentation:
>
> > [...]
>> docbook2x-texi --xinclude --info --utf8trans-map=charmap
>> ../../../../src/winsup/doc/cygwin-api.xml --string-param output-file=cygwin-api
>> could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32/XML/SAX
>> could not open -: No such file or directory
>> /usr/bin/db2x_texixml: program in pipeline exited with an error
>> make: *** [Makefile:729: cygwin-api.info] Error 1
>
> Poking around a bit, under the hood this is invoking makeinfo, and it seems that
> can't read from a pipeline anymore:
>
>> $ echo foo | makeinfo
>> could not open -: No such file or directory
>
> Downgrading to 6.7, I can build again, and:
>
>> $ echo foo | makeinfo
>> -: warning: document without nodes
>
> Is this an intentional upstream change?
No.
I've applied the upstream fix and am waiting for scallywag to build and deploy
texinfo-6.8-2. (It seems to be taking forever.)
My local test indicates that this fixes the problem, but I'd appreciate it if
you would confirm that before I "untest" the new release.
Thanks.
Ken
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-05 18:04 Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
2021-07-06 11:59 ` Jon Turney
2021-07-06 16:32 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-07-06 18:20 ` Jon Turney
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