Re: Build error in Devuan stable

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Branden,

Do you intend to fix this?  Should I report a bug in Savannah?

Cheers,
Alex

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:36:49AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:43:57PM +0100, onf wrote:
> > On Sun Nov 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM CET, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > I'm having a build error when trying to build groff HEAD in Devuan
> > > stable.  ./bootstrap and ./configure succeed, and them make(1) fails.
> > > Below is the failure.  Let me know if you need more details.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >   GEN      doc/groff.dvi
> > > [...]
> > > /usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.
> > > make: *** [Makefile:15737: doc/groff.dvi] Error 1
> > 
> > As the output shows, this is a problem with building the Texinfo manual
> > rather than with building groff itself. Unfortunately the current build
> > process makes the manual inseparable from the program itself, so that
> > if you can't build the manual, the entire build fails... which doesn't
> > make a lot of sense since it's written in Texinfo, not troff, so its
> > build failing means nothing in terms of groff's functionality.
> > 
> > I recently suggested a patch which skips building the manual if makeinfo
> > isn't present or is outdated.[1] You can easily modify it to disable
> > building the manual even if it's present. Simply do this to the patch:
> >   s/(groff_have_makeinfo=)yes/\1no/
> > 
> > and apply it. Re-running make should suffice according to the docs; if
> > it doesn't, run the whole bootstrap > configure > make process again.
> 
> Thanks!  +1 to your proposal.
> 
>       Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> 
> Branden, you may want to have a look at the Linux man-pages build
> system.  I'm not proposing that you replace autotools with some
> hand-written Makefiles, but the way the dependencies are laid out are
> interesting.  You can run `make` (a.k.a., `make build`) which runs all
> default targets.  In the man-pages project it only stamps the page date
> and project version into each page.  In other projects of mine (liba2i),
> it builds the library shared object (.so).
> 
> But then I allow building less than that with specialized `make build-*`
> targets:
> 
>       $ make help
>       To see a list of targets, run:
>               $ make nothing -p \
>               | grep '^\.PHONY:' \
>               | tr ' ' '\n' \
>               | grep -v '^\.PHONY:' \
>               | sort;
> 
>       To see a list of variables, run:
>               $ find GNUmakefile share/mk/configure -type f \
>               | sort \
>               | xargs grep '^[^[:space:]].*=' \
>               | sed 's/=.*/=/' \
>               | grep -v -e ':DEFAULT_.*=' -e ':MAKEFILE_.*INCLUDED :=';
> 
>       To see a list of dependencies (package/program), run:
>               $ find share/mk/configure/build-depends -type f \
>               | sed 's,share/mk/configure/build-depends/,,' \
>               | sed 's,\.mk,,' \
>               | sort;
> 
> 
>       $  make nothing -p \
>               | grep '^\.PHONY:' \
>               | tr ' ' '\n' \
>               | grep -v '^\.PHONY:' \
>               | sort \
>               | grep ^build;
>       build
>       build-all
>       build-catman
>       build-catman-eqn
>       build-catman-grotty
>       build-catman-troff
>       build-catman-troff-man
>       build-catman-troff-mdoc
>       build-ex
>       build-ex-cc
>       build-ex-dir
>       build-ex-ld
>       build-ex-src
>       build-fonts
>       build-fonts-download
>       build-fonts-tinos
>       build-html
>       build-html-post-grohtml
>       build-html-troff
>       build-html-troff-man
>       build-html-troff-mdoc
>       build-man
>       build-man-man
>       build-man-mdoc
>       build-man-so
>       build-pdf
>       build-pdf-book
>       build-pdf-pages
>       build-pdf-pages-eqn
>       build-pdf-pages-gropdf
>       build-pdf-pages-troff
>       build-pdf-pages-troff-man
>       build-pdf-pages-troff-mdoc
>       build-pre
>       build-pre-preconv
>       build-pre-tbl
>       build-ps
>       build-ps-eqn
>       build-ps-grops
>       build-ps-troff
>       build-ps-troff-man
>       build-ps-troff-mdoc
> 
> And have similar install-* targets:
> 
>       $ make nothing -p \
>               | grep '^\.PHONY:' \
>               | tr ' ' '\n' \
>               | grep -v '^\.PHONY:' \
>               | sort \
>               | grep ^install;
>       install
>       install-all
>       install-bin
>       install-html
>       install-man
>       install-man1
>       install-man2
>       install-man2const
>       install-man2type
>       install-man3
>       install-man3const
>       install-man3head
>       install-man3type
>       install-man4
>       install-man5
>       install-man6
>       install-man7
>       install-man8
>       install-manintro
>       install-pdf
>       install-pdf-book
> 
> This allows you to build parts of the project without needing to build
> the entire project, for whatever reasons one may have.
> 
> In groff, I would propose at least separating into build-bin and
> build-doc, and then do similarly for the install targets.  Also, please
> provide a `make help` that documents whatever organization you come up
> with (or in some README, or wherever you find appropriate).
> 
> Does that sound good to you?
> 
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex
> 
> > ~ onf
> > 
> > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-11/msg00165.html
> 
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