Re: guix-0.11 help2man errors during compilation

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Jan Synáček <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Jan Synáček <address@hidden> 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:
>>>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
>>> 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.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin