Re: lispref gmake info build Error 2 on 11/29/2004 CVS pull

[Luc Teirlinck]

Andrew Scott wrote:

   I pulled a fresh copy of CVS Emacs today into a clean directory and
   got this error:

   [... skip lots of build message, none with errors ...]

   (cd lispref; gmake -k info)
   gmake[1]: Entering directory `/stor/garray/src/savannah/build/lispref'
   makeinfo -I. -I/stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref 
/stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref/elisp.texi -o 
/stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref/../info/elisp
   /stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref/locals.texi:202: Cross reference to 
nonexistent node `Yet to be written'.
   /stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref/locals.texi:136: Cross reference to 
nonexistent node `Yet to be written'.
   makeinfo: Removing output file 
`/stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref/../info/elisp' due to error; use 
--force to preserve.
   gmake[1]: *** [/stor/garray/src/savannah/emacs/lispref/../info/elisp] Error 2
   gmake[1]: Target `info' not remade because of errors.
   gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/stor/garray/src/savannah/build/lispref'
   gmake: *** [info] Error 2

This is a known problem.  I committed a fix to CVS several days ago,
but Richard reversed my fix.  We will have to wait to see what Richard
decides to do with the problem.

In the meantime, you can apply my fix to your omn copy of
/lispref/locals.texi:

locals.texi contains:

@item line-spacing
@c Cause an error so we will fix this.
@xref{Yet to be written}.

and:

@item vertical-scroll-bar
@xref{Yet to be written}.
@end table

Replace these two by:

@item line-spacing
@c Cause an error so we will fix this.
@c @xref{Yet to be written}.

and:

@item vertical-scroll-bar
@c @xref{Yet to be written}.
@end table

and bootstrapping will work fine (unless something else broke it in
the meantime).

Sincerely,

Luc.