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From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>
Subject: Errors in building the documentation prevent compilation from completing properly
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:57:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FD4CA95F-913A-44F3-97C9-7AD076E8A991@Denis-Excoffier.org> (raw)

Hello,

Currently i have docbook2X not working on my system (a perl problem
that i don't know how to repair, but in a few months i will reinstall completely
this C:\Cygwin64 which dates back to 2019).

This means that /usr/share/docbook2X and /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi are missing.
Consequently, no *.info* file is produced.

Nevertheless, i tried to compile cygwin from sources (newlib-cygwin-3.3.6.tar.bz2),
knowing that "Normally, building ignores any errors in building the documentation"
(see https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin)

However, in order to 'make' and then 'make install' properly, i had to apply the following
easy patch (below).

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.


diff -uNr o/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am p/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am
--- o/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am	2022-09-05 13:09:51.000000000 +0200
+++ p/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am	2022-10-19 14:00:03.052557100 +0200
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 
 install-info-local: cygwin-ug-net.info cygwin-api.info
 	@$(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)
-	$(INSTALL_DATA) *.info* $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)
+	-$(INSTALL_DATA) *.info* $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)
 
 install-etc:
 	@$(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/postinstall
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 
 # this generates a custom charmap for docbook2x-texi which has a mapping for &reg;
 charmap:
-	cp /usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap charmap
+	-cp /usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap charmap
 	echo "ae (R)" >>charmap
 
 intro2man.stamp: intro.xml man.xsl




             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-19 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-19 17:57 Denis Excoffier [this message]
2022-10-20 10:29 ` Jon Turney
2022-10-20 17:46   ` Denis Excoffier
2022-11-15  3:24     ` Denis Excoffier

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