[debbugs-tracker] bug#18436: closed (Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking)

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> Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking
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> Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:57:24 -0400
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> I normally build with --disable-dependency-tracking to speed up builds,
> and also build out-of-tree, and got this with the latest coreutils:
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>     $ cd /foo/bar/coreutils-8.23
>     $ mkdir _build
>     $ cd _build
>     $ ../configure --disable-dependency-tracking
>     checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>     checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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>     $ make
>     [...]
>       GEN      lib/unistr.h
>       GEN      lib/unitypes.h
>       GEN      lib/uniwidth.h
>       GEN      lib/wchar.h
>       GEN      lib/wctype.h
>       GEN      src/coreutils.h
>     /bin/sh: src/coreutils.ht: No such file or directory
>     gmake: *** [src/coreutils.h] Error 1
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> --Daniel
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> Daniel Richard G. || address@hidden
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> On 09/19/2014 08:19 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 09/19/2014 06:36 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> Subject: [PATCH] build: fix dependency issues with man page generation
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> >> * .gitignore: Remove reference to no longer generated make file.
> >> * configure.ac: Don't bother generating placeholder make file.
> >> * man/local.mk: Hardcode the man page deps list for normal builds
> >> to be compatible with all make implementations and configure options.
> >> Note in SINGLE_BINARY mode, all man pages will be generated on
> >> any change to the coreutils binary, but development will generally
> >> not be done in this mode, so this shouldn't be an issue.
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> > It is:
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> >   $ make clean
> >   $ make
> >   $ make syntax-check -j
> >   ...
> >   help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/coreutils.td/coreutils
> >   Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> >   prohibit_inttostr_without_use
> >   prohibit_jm_in_m4
> >   make: *** [man/coreutils.1] Error 127
> >   make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
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> > This only goes away without -j here.
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> Oops, all that was missing for that case was
> an entry for coreutils.1 in the static dependency list.
> Pity we can't use a GNU pattern rule here,
> and portable suffix rules can't have prerequisites.
> Note pattern rules seem widely supported, which is tempting.
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> Anyway I added coreutils.1 to the list and pushed.
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> thanks for the review,
> Pádraig.
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