Re: Problem generating documentation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Xan Lopez <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Xan Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Using commit 32b12f40509e4bcb0823e1bb2a57e50af14560b5, I get the
>>> following error when the doc is being generated:
>>
>>> ERROR: In procedure skip_block_comment:
>>> ERROR: /home/xan/git/guile/guile-tools:1:3: unterminated `#! ... !#' comment
>>
>> If you take a look at /home/xan/git/guile/guile-tools, is the comment
>> really unterminated (as a Scheme block comment)?  There should be
>>
>> !#
>>
>> on its own on line 4, and that terminates the block comment.
>
> Ok, the problem is that I had a file named "guile-tools" in the
> toplevel, which was a shell script and had nothing to do with
> meta/guile-tools (no idea how it got there...), which is what I assume
> you were talking about.

I just hit that too.  The stale $top_builddir/guile-tools typically
comes from ‘branch_release-1-8’ or from a very old build of ‘master’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.