Re: [bug-gettext] Pre-release gettext-0.19-rc2

[Daiki Ueno]

Santiago Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> I got an empty msgfmt.1.html. This is because I modify msgfmt.c, which
> in turn makes msgfmt.1 outdated. Then it tries to renerate it using
> groff and the result was an empty file because I didn't have groff
> installed in my chroot. I discovered this by using lintian on the
> generated gettext-doc.deb:
>
> W: gettext-doc: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
> usr/share/doc/gettext-doc/msgfmt.1.html
>
> but I believe the build process should have failed instead.

Yeah, thanks for pointing this out.  I've refactored the generation
rules and fixed it as part of it:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?h=maint&id=d711425b

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno