From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>,
The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Errors in building the documentation prevent compilation from completing properly
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee940ded-db00-2543-0de8-552e2c40c30b@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD4CA95F-913A-44F3-97C9-7AD076E8A991@Denis-Excoffier.org>
On 19/10/2022 18:57, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> 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)
The behaviour was changed by [1], but unfortunately the documentation
change that contains has not yet been published.
Use the configure option '--disable-doc'.
[1]
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=f4a26ececa180cec70c41b6dd2082ff730f92065
>
> 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)
Ignoring errors here is (and always was) a terrible idea, frankly.
>
> install-etc:
> @$(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/postinstall
> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
>
> # this generates a custom charmap for docbook2x-texi which has a mapping for ®
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-20 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-19 17:57 Denis Excoffier
2022-10-20 10:29 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2022-10-20 17:46 ` Denis Excoffier
2022-11-15 3:24 ` Denis Excoffier
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