Re: Cannot easily contribute to the wiki

[Joshua Branson]

Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> writes:

I was able to my local hurd wiki to build locally.  I had to disable the
xapian search and ymlfront plugins.  Now I have the hurd wiki building
locally!

Hoo ray!!!

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:19:42 -0400, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> A few years ago I had the Hurd wiki cloned locally, and I could rather
>> trivially set it up.  However, following the online guide a few days
>> ago, I'm running into some issues.
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing/web_pages.html
>>
>> I've cloned the repo.  I've run
>>
>> $ apt-get install ikiwiki libyaml-syck-perl markdown
>> libsearch-xapian-perl texinfo
>>
>> Neither of these commands work in the web pages directory:
>>
>>  ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
>>
>> ./render_locally
>>
>>
>> They both fail with "Failed to load plugin, Ikiwiki::Plugin::field".
>
> Please always quote the exact log what you did and what happened;
> copy'n'paste from your terminal.
>
>> Basically getting all of ikiwiki's plugins needed to run the hurd wiki
>> is a bit of a pain.
>
> That's why these non-standard "field" etc. plugins are shipped inside the
> Hurd "web" repository, see ".library/IkiWiki/Plugin/".
>
>> This is not a complaint just an observation and a request for help.
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
>
> I'm aware of one problem that is seen with "recent" verions of Perl
> (don't know when exactly this started), which indeed makes the "getfield"
> plugin fail to load:
>
>     $ ./render_locally
>     Failed to load plugin IkiWiki::Plugin::getfield: Unescaped left brace in 
> regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/{{ <-- HERE 
> \$([-\w/]+#)?[-\w]+}}/ at [...]/.library/IkiWiki/Plugin/getfield.pm line 68.
>     Compilation failed in require at (eval 94) line 1.
>     BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 94) line 1.
>
> (This, or something similar, also happens when pushing to darnassus.)
>
> I already have identified a fix, and will push that in the next days.
>
>
> Grüße
>  Thomas