Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Bernd,

On Tue, Sep 23 2014 at 03:35:39 PM, "Bernd Warken" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Von: "Bertrand Garrigues" <address@hidden>
>> 
> With your runtests.sh, `make check' runs without errors.

OK thanks, patch commited.

>> On which environment are you working, perhaps a Debian-based distro with
>> dash as the default shell ? It seems that the file
>> contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.sh has a bashism. You should have the same
>> problem on master. Does it work better with the attached patch ?
>
> Kubuntu developer 14.10
> $ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash

Strange. If your shell is bash, you should not have been annoyed by the
bashism.

>> Do you mean the patch on the groff.texi does not work on the automake2
>> branch, or that building groff.pdf on master with the 2 commands I gave
>> you doees not work ?  
>
> No, in `build/doc' the command `make groff.pdf' does not work.

OK, we are not going to debug the problems on master, I've commited the
patch on the groff.texi as the current file obviously can't work with
texinfo 5.2.

> For `make distcheck', I get this error:
>
> #####
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../src/devices/xditview/GXditview.ad \
>   /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/GXditview
> /usr/bin/install: reguläre Datei »/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/GXditview“
> kann nicht angelegt werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> Makefile:9725: recipe for target 'install_xditview' failed
> make[3]: *** [install_xditview] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> '/opt/development/groff/git/automake/groff/build/groff-1.22.2/_build'
> Makefile:8089: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> '/opt/development/groff/git/automake/groff/build/groff-1.22.2/_build'
> Makefile:8083: recipe for target 'install' failed
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/opt/development/groff/git/automake/groff/build/groff-1.22.2/_build'
> Makefile:7990: recipe for target 'distcheck' failed
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
> #####
>
> It is strange that `make distcheck' tries to installs already.  Moreover
> that installation would go into `/usr', not into `/usr/local'.
>
> Of course, that would not work as normal user.
> Maybe `root' would do that - but I don't want to test that.

'make distcheck' will attempt to make a tarball, untar it, build it (in
out-of-source tree style), clean it, check it, install it and uninstall
it. 

You can use DESTDIR to make the install/uninstall in an ordinary
directory, e.g.:
  mkdir ~/tmp
  make distcheck DESTDIR=~/tmp/

This way you don't need to be root.

Regards,

--
Bertrand Garrigues