On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Hello, > > Jan Synáček 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. > > I need some extra information in order to debug this. > - The config.log file and the Makefile from you build directory Attached. > - The output of 'make --version' and 'help2man --version' $ make --version GNU Make 4.1 Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu ... $ help2man --version GNU help2man 1.47.4 ... > Are you building from the Git repository or the release tarball? I'm building from the 0.11 release tarball. > 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... -- Jan Synáček