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

[David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:22 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:

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.

​I guess I didn't make myself clear. By default the vanilla source code is used during build inside mock, no modifications to it are currently there.​ So, when I try the build for 4.1.4, it uses the texinfo.tex shipped with gawk. There shouldn't be any way for mock to download some older texinfo.tex from somewhere else. The reason why it is older in the gawk.log is that I was trying to find out which commit started to cause this. I have found it, and I have put that log to pastebin. That's why it has older timestamp than current source tarball. :)

 

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.

​Actually, we're using the Texinfo 6.1 for Fedora 24: (mock used this)
texinfo                            x86_64   6.1-3.fc25                                  fedora   1.1 M
texinfo-tex                        x86_64   6.1-3.fc25                                  fedora   153 k

We're using older version (Texinfo 6.0) inside F23, which is able to compile the gawk-4.1.4 documentation.

I'm actually starting to think that something has changed inside Texinfo between version 6.0 and 6.1, because there was this BZ for Texinfo:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309702

texi2dvi was exiting with wrong exit code, and doing only one iteration/pass. This looks almost like something I'm getting inside mock.

The problem was reported to Texinfo upstream: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00121.html

I will look into this more tomorrow, and I will discuss this with our maintainer of Texinfo.

 

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.

​No problem, I understand. :) I will try to find some fix/workaround, I will keep you updated if needed.​

 

David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
Associate Software Engineer
Brno, Czech Republic

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