Re: guix-0.11 help2man errors during compilation

[Jan Synáček]

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.
>
> I need some extra information in order to debug this.
> - The config.log file and the Makefile from you build directory

Attached.

> - The output of 'make --version' and 'help2man --version'

$ make --version
GNU Make 4.1
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
...
$ help2man --version
GNU help2man 1.47.4
...

> Are you building from the Git repository or the release tarball?

I'm building from the 0.11 release tarball.

> 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...

-- 
Jan Synáček

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