From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot generate web manuals Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:13:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388348031 26099 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2013 20:13:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Xue Fuqiao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 29 21:13:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VxMkI-0003GI-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:13:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxMkG-0000U8-W3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:13:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxMkD-0000Tq-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxMkC-0003vB-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxMkC-0003v5-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxMkB-00087Y-9I; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:13:51 -0500 X-Spook: espionage IDEA Clinton COSCO Axis of Evil oil doctrine X-Ran: 1]:rcgOXX|8q:4Gnq+4Me(AMD=$^7!67<4?Gu:/32/_R_SB{,.pO$!Pcav`8{5V{A-^yFs X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:04:59 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166975 Archived-At: Xue Fuqiao wrote: > with `make-manuals' in admin/admin.el, but met an error. I've attached > the backtrace. > > I invoked this command without using prefix argument (which means to > generate all kinds of manuals: HTML, PDF, and PostScript). The error > occurred when generating the "emacs-node" manual (which is the first > step). It works fine for me with makeinfo 4.13. Perhaps something is different in makeinfo 5. > Should I file a bug report? Depends if you want someone to fix it at some point, or if you just want a chat. > BTW perhaps we should use something like `make-progress-reporter' to > report the progress of this function, since it'll take a long time. Why bother? It's obvious when it's working. > I'll also start to work on generating PDF and PostScript versions of > doc/misc manuals as requested by Jambunathan K[fn:1] later. I would not bother if I were you. To date we intentionally only provide the main manuals in non-html formats. It is a pain to keep multiple formats up-to-date, for little benefit IMO. > I also have a question here: `manual-html-mono' does not generate the > manual for lispref. How was > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html generated? Using M-x make-manuals. I don't know why you think it doesn't make html_mono/elisp.html.