Re: [Bug-zile] Problems generating manpage

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 28.07.2014 um 20:55 schrieb Stefan Husmann:
> Am 28.07.2014 um 10:36 schrieb Gary V. Vaughan:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > > On 27 Jul 2014, at 13:09, Stefan Husmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > compiling the zile master branch from git under Arch Linux, I get the following 
> > > error:
> > >
> > > checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
> > > configure: creating ./config.status
> > > config.status: creating .travis.yml
> > > config.status: creating Makefile
> > > config.status: creating build-aux/config.ld
> > > config.status: creating lib/zile/version.lua
> > > config.status: creating lib/zemacs/zemacs
> > > config.status: creating lib/zz/zz
> > >   ZLC      lib/zemacs/commands.lua
> > > test -f 'lib/zemacs/commands.lua'
> > >   GEN      doc/zemacs.1
> > > help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./lib/zemacs/help2man-wrapper
> > > Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> > > Makefile:1612: recipe for target 'doc/zemacs.1' failed
> > > make: *** [doc/zemacs.1] Error 255
> > > ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
> > >     Aborting...
> > >
> > > Process makepkg exited abnormally with code 2
> > >
> > > You can find the full build log under http://hastebin.com/jopokoreke
> > >
> > > Help is appreciated.
> >
> > This sometimes happens when the zlc compiler fails to produce output to
> > lib/zemacs/commands.lua.  If there is nothing in that file, then remove the
> > empty file and run make in verbose mode to see the command line that
> > was called by make, and run it again from your shell to see if there are any
> > error messages.
> >
> > The other problem I can think of is that help2man-wrapper is not able to
> > run the zemacs --help command; again you can get the error messages
> > from that failure mode by first trying 'lib/zemacs/zemacs --help'.
> >
> > If you're still stuck after that, please paste your error messages in a reply
> > to this list, and I should be able to help you further.
> >
> > Cheers,
> Hello,
>
> thanks for the hint, I think a lib is missing.

Hello,

Indeed there were more than one broken module (alien, lrexlib). I think I 
managed
to sort out these problems. But I still have race condidtions.

See http://hastebin.com/nasonobufa for a full log.

Again thanks for your help.

Best Regards

Stefan