Re: [Bug-zile] Problems generating manpage

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Stefan,

> On 27 Jul 2014, at 13:09, Stefan Husmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> compiling the zile master branch from git under Arch Linux, I get the 
> following error:
> 
> checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating .travis.yml
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating build-aux/config.ld
> config.status: creating lib/zile/version.lua
> config.status: creating lib/zemacs/zemacs
> config.status: creating lib/zz/zz
>  ZLC      lib/zemacs/commands.lua
> test -f 'lib/zemacs/commands.lua'
>  GEN      doc/zemacs.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./lib/zemacs/help2man-wrapper
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> Makefile:1612: recipe for target 'doc/zemacs.1' failed
> make: *** [doc/zemacs.1] Error 255
> ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
>    Aborting...
> 
> Process makepkg exited abnormally with code 2
> 
> You can find the full build log under http://hastebin.com/jopokoreke
> 
> Help is appreciated.

This sometimes happens when the zlc compiler fails to produce output to 
lib/zemacs/commands.lua.  If there is nothing in that file, then remove the
empty file and run make in verbose mode to see the command line that
was called by make, and run it again from your shell to see if there are any
error messages.

The other problem I can think of is that help2man-wrapper is not able to
run the zemacs --help command; again you can get the error messages
from that failure mode by first trying 'lib/zemacs/zemacs --help'.

If you're still stuck after that, please paste your error messages in a reply
to this list, and I should be able to help you further.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe)