Re: [bug-gawk] 'make -C doc/ pdf' [Makefile:457: recipe for target gawk.pdf failed]

[arnold]

Hi David.

You need to figure out how to get mock to use the texinfo.tex shipped
with gawk. Mock is stil using an older version. I support building the doc
with what I ship.  But not otherwise.

It may be that you need to move to Texinfo 6.1 (or even the just released
Texinfo 6.3) for the latest Fedora. I don't know.  Using the texinfo.tex
in the tarball is the way to go. You may need to move to the newer
Texinfo anyway since that package has an updated and smarter texindex
program which gawk's doc probably needs.

Inisde mock, you can try setting the TEXINPUTS environment variable to
have the gawk doc directory in it first:

        TEXINPUTS=$PWD/doc:$TEXINPUTS make -C doc/ pdf

or some such.

I don't have the cycles to try to mess with SRPMs and so on, especially
as I don't run an RPM-based distribution.

HTH,

Arnold


"David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I was in a hurry yesterday, so I have accidentally sent the wrong log
> file... :-/ Today, I looked into this more:
>
> * I am able to create documentation if I normally use 'make -C doc/ pdf' or
> 'cd doc && make pdf && cd ..' for gawk-4.1.4 in my Fedora 24.
> * The problem occurs when I try to build it inside mock [1] for Fedora 24
> (and higher), I'm trying to do rebase for F26.
> * If I try to build it for F23 in mock, it passes. IOW, using newer
> versions of 'texi2dvi' inside mock (for F24+) results in compilation fail.
> * When it fails, it produces only partial documentation, with Index and
> everything behind it missing.
> * When I use the 'texi2pdf' instead of 'make pdf' in the specfile, I'm able
> to see at which line this occurs.
> * I've used git-bisect to find a commit where the build starts to fail,
> it's this commit:
>
> [upstream||gawk] ~ [3e762b6 $] # git last
> * commit 3e762b6f62061974d152dd251f3e83cacca073e3 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
> | Author: Arnold D. Robbins <address@hidden>
> | Date:   12 months ago
> |
> |     Update infrastructure files.
>
> * This helped me narrow it to file causing the issue: doc/texinfo.tex
> (using older version of texinfo.tex with the first failing commit allows
> build to pass).
> * Reading through changes in the texinfo.tex, there was some bigger update
> to how Index is being produced, if I'm not mistaken.
> * Running the build with refs/bisect/bad commit and with 'texi2pdf' shows
> me, that the compilation of PDF stops at line number 38144 of gawk.texi
> (which has @cindex right above it).
>
> So, I have updated the pastebin log, so you can check it out yourself here:
> http://pastebin.com/skxGpHnL
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not so good with TeX to be able to pinpoint the problem
> more closely, but if you need anything more from me, I can help. :) I can
> also provide you with the srpm if you would like to build it / try it
> yourself.
>
> ---------
> [1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki
> ---------
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
> *Associate Software Engineer*
> *Brno, Czech Republic*
>
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