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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:14:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li21e30n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2ndo000.fsf@karetnikov.org> (Nikita Karetnikov's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:09:51 +0400")

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> It invokes /missing instead of $top_srcdir/build-aux/missing.
>
>>> I added ‘help2man’, but it didn’t help.
>
>> Could you check the configure log for clues?
>
>> Also, can you check the makefiles to see how it’s supposed to build the
>> man pages?
>
> It just needed Perl.

OK.

>>>> Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.
>
>> Too much time?  But it succeeds?
>
> Sorry, I was thinking about a different command.  Yours fails with
> “string contains #\nul character.”  May I stick to the list of files
> instead of using ‘find-files’?

Hmm yes, but it looks really long, and thus hard to maintain.  Can’t it
be reduced?

> Now, 20 of 25 tests failed.  Tests are written in Ksh, not Bash, so I’ll
> try to package it first.

Forgive my ignorance, but is Ksh somehow compatible with tcsh (tcsh is
already packaged)?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09 20:46 a2ps: manpages fail to build Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-09 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-09 21:57   ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-09 22:02     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-10 11:09       ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-10 12:14         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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