From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: guix-0.11 help2man errors during compilation Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 15:23:57 +0200 Message-ID: <871t22uj2q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h9azjtlh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bW1a9-0008Di-CQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2016 09:24:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bW1a5-0000pT-6F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2016 09:24:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?B\?U3luw6HEjWVrIidz\?\= message of "Sat, 6 Aug 2016 09:31:32 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan =?utf-8?B?U3luw6HEjWVr?= Cc: guix-devel Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek writes: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek writes: >> >>> I'm getting strange errors: >>> >>> ... >>> HELP2MAN doc/guix-daemon.1 >>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from guix-daemon >>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr >>> WARNING: 'help2man' is missing on your system. >>> You should only need it if you modified a dependency of a man = page. >>> You may want to install the GNU Help2man package: >>> >>> Makefile:4893: recipe for target 'doc/guix-daemon.1' failed >>> make: [doc/guix-daemon.1] Error 127 (ignored) >>> ... >>> >>> help2man *is* present on my system. Later on, more man pages in doc/ >>> are built just fine. >> Are you building from the Git repository or the release tarball? > > I'm building from the 0.11 release tarball. Humm, this is really weird. Building from tarball is not supposed to trigger rebuilding any of the manpages which are already included. >> When you execute make again does it try to rebuild 'doc/guix-daemon.1' >> if yes, does it succeed? > > It tries again but never succeeds. > > However, after rebooting my machine, I cannot reproduce this anymore... bahhh... I will inspect what happens on Alex side then. Thank you for the details. --=20 Mathieu Lirzin