Re: recent make doc failure

[Julien Rioux]

On 29/11/2011 6:15 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 05:28:37PM -0500, Julien Rioux wrote:
> > This is a sequential make and make doc. The latter stops with the
> > error message given below. Extract_texi_filename is the last thing
> > that runs correctly and then make tries to copy a file from the
> > build dir instead of the source dir. Does anybody else experience
> > this?
>
> I've seen some mentions of this from the arch linux guy, but I
> can't recall if a proper bug report made its way into the tracker.
>
> > Just looking for some confirmation so that I can identify if I did
> > something wrong or not.
> > cp -p web.texi out-www/web.texi
> > cp: cannot stat `web.texi': No such file or directory
> > make[3]: *** [out-www/web.texi] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
>
> I similar messages in Dec 2009 or 2010 with lilybuntu 1.1 (old
> version).  Only occurred when running inside virtualbox.  The
> problem went away when ubuntu sent out a kernel upgrade.
> Seriously.
>
> If it's the same bug, then running "make doc" again should
> complete the fr/ translations, but die on the de/ or es/ ones.  If
> you repeat "make doc" 7 or 8 times, you'll end up with the
> complete docs.

Ah yeah, I forgot to test that. I already nuked the build dir, but I'll 
try it next time.

> I can't see anything wrong in what you're doing, and I think there
> *is* some kind of dependency problem.  You're the best person to
> debug those!
> incidently, I have no problems making doc, so I suspect some kind
> of timing / dependency order issue.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

Thank you for checking. So something setup-dependent. Bliss.

Cheers,
Julien