Re: Texinfo master HEAD build failed on Debian

[Vincent Belaïche]

Just for the clarity of my previous statement : what caused the
problem is that one of the tools configured was set to the command ':'
which is a bash builtin defined as follows in (info "(bash) Bourne
Shell Builtins") :

`:    (a colon)'
          : [ARGUMENTS]
     Do nothing beyond expanding ARGUMENTS and performing redirections.
     The return status is zero.

>From the top of my head I think that this is msgmerge that was
configured as ':'. Anyway in the current Makefile I have the correct
settings.

  V.

Le mer. 9 sept. 2020 à 16:52, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Sorry for the much ado for nothing. I could note reproduce the problem
> either. I had made an svn update anyway and re-installed automake.
> After configuring with the --disable-perl-xs I could make and install
> texi2any, and yes, the other problem of internationalisation which I
> had also disappeared.
>
> Maybe my system was not up-to date when I made the first build
> attempt, and autotools did not notice.
> I had a look at po_document/Makefile, and it has changed
> (unfortunately I have not kept a version of the original makefile that
> caused the problem), but when I had the problem one of the tools (I
> think it was MSGMERGE_UPDATE) was defined as : --update. Probably this
> setting was supposed to do nothing without hurting the compilation
> process, but indeed that did not work.
>
>   Vincent.
>
> Le lun. 7 sept. 2020 à 22:09, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 06:13:54PM +0200, Vincent Belaďche wrote:
> > > Here is what I get:
> > >
> > > test ! -f texinfo_document.po || { \
> > >   if test -f ./texinfo_document.pot-header; then \
> > >     sed -e '1,/^#$/d' < texinfo_document.po > texinfo_document.1po && \
> > >     cat ./texinfo_document.pot-header texinfo_document.1po >
> > > texinfo_document.po && \
> > >     rm -f texinfo_document.1po \
> > >     || exit 1; \
> > >   fi; \
> > >   if test -f ./texinfo_document.pot; then \
> > >     sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < ./texinfo_document.pot >
> > > texinfo_document.1po && \
> > >     sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < texinfo_document.po > 
> > > texinfo_document.2po && \
> > >     if cmp texinfo_document.1po texinfo_document.2po >/dev/null 2>&1; 
> > > then \
> > >       rm -f texinfo_document.1po texinfo_document.2po 
> > > texinfo_document.po; \
> > >     else \
> > >       rm -f texinfo_document.1po texinfo_document.2po
> > > ./texinfo_document.pot && \
> > >       mv texinfo_document.po ./texinfo_document.pot; \
> > >     fi; \
> > >   else \
> > >     mv texinfo_document.po ./texinfo_document.pot; \
> > >   fi; \
> > > }
> > > make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/bio/Perso/texinfo/po_document'
> > > make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/bio/Perso/texinfo/po_document'
> > > : --update  --lang=ca --previous ca.po texinfo_document.pot
> > > rm -f ca.gmo && : --no-location --quiet -o ca.1po ca.po
> > > texinfo_document.pot && : -c --statistics --verbose -o ca.gmo ca.1po
> > > && rm -f ca.1po
> > > mv: cannot stat 't-ca.gmo': No such file or directory
> > > Makefile:198: recipe for target 'ca.gmo' failed
> > > make[4]: *** [ca.gmo] Error 1
> > > make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/bio/Perso/texinfo/po_document'
> > > Makefile:3698: recipe for target '../po_document/ca.gmo' failed
> > > make[3]: *** [../po_document/ca.gmo] Error 2
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/bio/Perso/texinfo/tp'
> > > Makefile:3248: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> > > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bio/Perso/texinfo/tp'
> > > Makefile:1227: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bio/Perso/texinfo'
> > > Makefile:1166: recipe for target 'all' failed
> > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > I had a look at the Makefile to see where the reference to "t-ca.gmo"
> > came from but I wasn't able to see it.  Maybe your other problem with
> > locales is related.