Re: core-updates fails to "make dist" missing guix-manual.pot

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2019-09-03, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I'm trying to generate a tarball from core-updates using "make
>> dist". With the following commit it always ends in a failure due to
>> missing guix-manual.pot:
>>
>>   893c2df00daa4e6dd6a7ff3813d7df5329877f9e
>>   Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
>>
>>   $ ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make dist
>>   ....
>>   make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'po/doc/guix-manual.pot', needed by
>>   'distdir-am'.  Stop.
>>   make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/vagrant/src/guix-tarball'
>>   make[1]: *** [Makefile:4967: distdir] Error 2
>>   make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vagrant/src/guix-tarball'
>>   make: *** [Makefile:5072: dist] Error 2
>
> Did that problem eventually vanish?
>
> If not, did you try “make doc-pot-update”?
>
> I think that’s supposed to happen automatically, but maybe something’s
> wrong.

That helped!

I updated to the lastest core-updates:

  0481289cbccba2646bf654f0ae49ac9c45602d5d
  Merge branch 'master' into core-updates

Next problem was missing "convert", which was fixed by also installing
"imagemagick".

Which still had issues:

  $ make dist
  ...
  echo 1.0.1.3486-04812 > "guix-1.0.1.3486-04812/.tarball-version"
  guix-1.0.1.3486-04812/gnu/packages/commencement.scm:          ;;
  configure: warning:
  
CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/kpxi8h3669afr9r1bgvaf9ij3y4wdyyn-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash:
  invalid host type
  guix-1.0.1.3486-04812/gnu/packages/patches/binutils-boot-2.20.1a.patch:+
  libtool: link:
  /gnu/store/rgwjixk5zl7s2d3xsb2ws2z2q3m0xjm4-tcc-boot-0.9.26-0.97196ce/bin/tcc
  -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -D MES_BOOTSTRAP=1 -g -o size size.o bucomm.o
  version.o filemode.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a
  ./../intl/libintl.a
  guix-1.0.1.3486-04812/gnu/packages/patches/binutils-boot-2.20.1a.patch:+
  
/gnu/store/rgwjixk5zl7s2d3xsb2ws2z2q3m0xjm4-tcc-boot-0.9.26-0.97196ce/lib/libc.a:
  error: 'strncmp' defined twice
  error: store file names embedded in the distribution
  make[3]: *** [Makefile:5883: assert-no-store-file-names] Error 1
  make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/vagrant/src/guix-tarball'
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:4981: distdir-am] Error 2
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/vagrant/src/guix-tarball'
  make[1]: *** [Makefile:4974: distdir] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vagrant/src/guix-tarball'
  make: *** [Makefile:5079: dist] Error 2

One step at a time... :)


live well,
  vagrant

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