Re: Docs are being built during 'make check'?

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Jeffrey,

> Le 30 janv. 2020 à 11:32, Jeffrey Walton <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> This is weird... Docs are being built during make check. I have to
> include MAKEINFO and HELP2MAN in the make check recipe.
> 
> My driver scripts looks like:
> 
> echo "**********************"
> echo "Testing package"
> echo "**********************"
> 
> MAKE_FLAGS=("check" "V=1" "MAKEINFO=true" "HELP2MAN=true")
> if ! "$MAKE" "${MAKE_FLAGS[@]}"
> then
>    echo "**********************"
>    echo "Failed to test Bison"
>    echo "**********************"
>    exit 1
> fi
> 
> But the result is:
> 
> ...
> make  check-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1'
> Making check in po
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1/po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1/po'
> Making check in runtime-po
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1/runtime-po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1/runtime-po'
> Making check in gnulib-po
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1/gnulib-po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1/gnulib-po'
> Making check in .
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1'
> LC_ALL=C tests/bison --version >doc/bison.help.tmp
> LC_ALL=C tests/bison --help | \
>  sed -e 's,^Usage: .*/bison \[OPTION\],Usage: bison [OPTION],g' \
>      -e '/translation bugs/d'  >>doc/bison.help.tmp
> ./build-aux/move-if-change doc/bison.help.tmp doc/bison.help
> rm -f lib/liby.a
> ar cr lib/liby.a lib/main.o lib/yyerror.o
> ranlib lib/liby.a
> true            \
>    --include=./doc/bison.x    \
>    --output=doc/bison.1.tmp tests/bison
> if sed 's/^\(\.TH[^"]*"[^"]*"[^"]*\)"[^"]*"/\1/' doc/bison.1
>> doc/bison.1a.tmp 2>/dev/null &&        \
>   sed 's/^\(\.TH[^"]*"[^"]*"[^"]*\)"[^"]*"/\1/' doc/bison.1.tmp | cmp
> doc/bison.1a.tmp - >/dev/null 2>&1; then    \
>  touch doc/bison.1;                                \
> else                                    \
>  mv doc/bison.1.tmp doc/bison.1;                        \
> fi
> sed: can't read doc/bison.1.tmp: No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat 'doc/bison.1.tmp': No such file or directory
> Makefile:9562: recipe for target 'doc/bison.1' failed
> make[2]: *** [doc/bison.1] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1'
> Makefile:8278: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/bison-3.5.1'
> Makefile:8725: recipe for target 'check' failed
> make: *** [check] Error 2
> **********************
> Failed to test Bison
> **********************
> 
> It is very unusual.

Yes.  And it should not happen.  Something is different in your environment
and we need to figure out what.  Could you please send me your doc/bison.help
(or doc/bison.help.tmp) file?  It probably shows differences that I have
not anticipated.

I suspect it might be the bits about reporting bugs in translations.