a2ps: manpages fail to build

a2ps: manpages fail to build

[Nikita Karetnikov]

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I’m getting the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/nix-build-a2ps-4.14.drv-7/a2ps-4.14/man'
Updating man page fixps.1
Updating man page psmandup.1
Updating man page card.1
/nix/store/vw6j6hcbcg2siv93v66d7i3fswyj116k-bash-4.2/bin/bash: line 3: /missing: No such file or directory
/nix/store/vw6j6hcbcg2siv93v66d7i3fswyj116k-bash-4.2/bin/bash: line 3: /missing: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [card.1] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [fixps.1] Error 1
Updating man page psset.1
/nix/store/vw6j6hcbcg2siv93v66d7i3fswyj116k-bash-4.2/bin/bash: line 3: /missing: No such file or directory
/nix/store/vw6j6hcbcg2siv93v66d7i3fswyj116k-bash-4.2/bin/bash: line 3: /missing: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [psset.1] Error 1
make[2]: *** [psmandup.1] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-a2ps-4.14.drv-7/a2ps-4.14/man'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-a2ps-4.14.drv-7/a2ps-4.14'
make: *** [all] Error 2
phase `build' failed after 10 seconds
note: keeping build directory `/tmp/nix-build-a2ps-4.14.drv-7'
builder for `/nix/store/4dfd0qglsh76cbfs2a539j38bndkm5zj-a2ps-4.14.drv' failed with exit code 1
@ build-failed /nix/store/4dfd0qglsh76cbfs2a539j38bndkm5zj-a2ps-4.14.drv - 1 builder for `/nix/store/4dfd0qglsh76cbfs2a539j38bndkm5zj-a2ps-4.14.drv' failed with exit code 1
guix build: error: build failed: build of `/nix/store/4dfd0qglsh76cbfs2a539j38bndkm5zj-a2ps-4.14.drv' failed

What’s wrong?

Also, I don’t like the synopsis from Womb, so I used my own.  Is it OK?


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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
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(define-module (gnu packages a2ps)
  #:use-module (guix licenses)
  #:use-module (gnu packages gperf)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))

(define-public a2ps
  (package
    (name "a2ps")
    (version "4.14")
    (source
     (origin
      (method url-fetch)
      (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/a2ps/a2ps-"
                          version ".tar.gz"))
      (sha256
       (base32
        "195k78m1h03m961qn7jr120z815iyb93gwi159p1p9348lyqvbpk"))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (inputs
     `(("gperf" ,gperf)))
    (arguments
     '(#:phases (alist-cons-before
                 'build 'pre-build
                 (lambda _
                   (substitute* '("contrib/card.in"
                                  "contrib/fixps.in"
                                  "contrib/psset.m4"
                                  "contrib/fixps.m4"
                                  "contrib/fixbb.m4"
                                  "contrib/psmandup.in"
                                  "contrib/psmandup.m4"
                                  "contrib/card.m4"
                                  "contrib/psset.in"
                                  "afm/make_fonts_map.sh"
                                  "tests/backup.tst"
                                  "tests/defs.in"
                                  "tests/tstfiles/psmandup"
                                  "tests/gps-ref/psmandup.ps"
                                  "tests/ps-ref/psmandup.ps"
                                  "tests/view-diff"
                                  "tests/styles.tst")
                     (("/bin/rm") (which "rm"))))
                 %standard-phases)))
    (home-page "https://gnu.org/software/a2ps/")
    (synopsis "Convert any file to PostScript")
    (description
     "GNU a2ps is a filter which generates PostScript from various formats,
with pretty-printing features, has strong support for many alphabets, and
customizable layout.")
    (license gpl3+)))

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Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

> make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/nix-build-a2ps-4.14.drv-7/a2ps-4.14/man'
> Updating man page fixps.1
> Updating man page psmandup.1
> Updating man page card.1
> /nix/store/vw6j6hcbcg2siv93v66d7i3fswyj116k-bash-4.2/bin/bash: line 3: /missing: No such file or directory
> /nix/store/vw6j6hcbcg2siv93v66d7i3fswyj116k-bash-4.2/bin/bash: line 3: /missing: No such file or directory

There’s a bug in its build system, but most likely it wants ‘help2man’
(as native input.)

> Also, I don’t like the synopsis from Womb, so I used my own.  Is it OK?

No it’s not.  :-)

If you have a strong argument, tell Karl what you don’t like and what
you’d prefer.  But the policy is for Guix to follow what’s done there.

>                  (lambda _
>                    (substitute* '("contrib/card.in"
>                                   "contrib/fixps.in"
>                                   "contrib/psset.m4"
>                                   "contrib/fixps.m4"
>                                   "contrib/fixbb.m4"
>                                   "contrib/psmandup.in"
>                                   "contrib/psmandup.m4"
>                                   "contrib/card.m4"
>                                   "contrib/psset.in"
>                                   "afm/make_fonts_map.sh"
>                                   "tests/backup.tst"
>                                   "tests/defs.in"
>                                   "tests/tstfiles/psmandup"
>                                   "tests/gps-ref/psmandup.ps"
>                                   "tests/ps-ref/psmandup.ps"
>                                   "tests/view-diff"
>                                   "tests/styles.tst")
>                      (("/bin/rm") (which "rm"))))

Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.

>     (description
>      "GNU a2ps is a filter which generates PostScript from various formats,
> with pretty-printing features, has strong support for many alphabets, and
> customizable layout.")

Now description have to be taken from pkgdescr.txt (run ‘make
sync-descriptions’ to get the right text.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build

[Nikita Karetnikov]

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> There’s a bug in its build system, but most likely it wants ‘help2man’
> (as native input.)

Could you expand on the bug part?

I added ‘help2man’, but it didn’t help.

> Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.

It takes too much time, or I’m doing something wrong.

> Now description have to be taken from pkgdescr.txt (run ‘make
> sync-descriptions’ to get the right text.)

I should package more, thanks for pointing this out.

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Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> There’s a bug in its build system, but most likely it wants ‘help2man’
>> (as native input.)
>
> Could you expand on the bug part?

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?

>> Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.
>
> It takes too much time, or I’m doing something wrong.

Too much time?  But it succeeds?

(It should be just as fast as running ‘find’ in that directory.)

HTH,
Ludo’.

Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build

[Nikita Karetnikov]

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> 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.

>>> 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’?

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

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Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.