Re: Christmas wishes and a failing installation of gnustep-gui on FreeBSD.

[Edwin Ancaer]

Fred,

thanks for looking into this. If I look in the Makefiles of the GNUStep ports, I see they use github, but apparently they are unmaintaned since a while. Libs-gui is version is still at version 0_28_0 and libs-base is at 0_27_0. 

I will try to update all Makefiles to the the latest versions in Github. Since I'm not a specialist, it might take some time. 🤞

For the new year, I'll wish for a maintainer of the gnustep ports.

Edwin

Op wo 27 dec 2023 om 23:11 schreef Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de>:

Looks like we need to switch line 101 and 102 in the file AppKit.texi. I will try this change tomorrow and hope this changes the issue for you. What I am not sure is, when this change will reach you as you don’t seem to compile from the git source code.

Cheers,
Fred

> Am 27.12.2023 um 09:31 schrieb Edwin Ancaer <eancaer@gmail.com>:
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I must admit my Christmas Wishes for you all are not entirely without self-interest 😇
> I recently had to reinstall GNUStep on my FreeBSD laptop. As I'm on FreeBSD, I used the ports system. When installing the gnustem-gui port, I had an error. The installation displayed a list  of missing html documents, and ended with error code 1.
>
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/libs-gui-gui-0_28_0/Documentation'
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/libs-gui-gui-0_28_0'
> ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man)
> ===>   Installing ldconfig configuration file
> ===>  Installing for gnustep-gui-0.28.0_1
> ===>  Checking if gnustep-gui is already installed
> ===>   Registering installation for gnustep-gui-0.28.0_1
> pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/stage/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/Developer/Gui/ProgrammingManual/AppKit/Affine-Transformations.html:No such file or directory
> pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/stage/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/Developer/Gui/ProgrammingManual/AppKit/Application-Makefiles.html:No such file or directory
> ...
> ...
> ...
> pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/stage/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/Developer/Gui/ProgrammingManual/AppKit/theviewconcept.html:No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
>
> The only error I found until now was with a call to texi2pdf  for AppKit.texi . I suppose my version of texi2pdf  is too old or too new,  but before I start messing with versions, could  someone tell me if the error above can be caused by texi2pdf failing. After all, it is complaining about missing HTML documents, not PDFs. I tried the texi2pdf with the AppKit.texi file from the command line, and I got the same error as the one from the installation:
>
> gmake[4]: Entering directory '/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/libs-gui-gui-0_28_0/Documentation/manual'
> Making all for doc AppKit...
> texi2pdf   \
> AppKit.texi -o AppKit.pdf
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (Web2C 2015) (preloaded format=pdfetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./AppKit.texi (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 2015-05-06.11]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
> page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
> defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
> (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
> This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
> ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
> (/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/libs-gui-gui-0_28_0/Documentation/man
> ual/AppKit.aux) [1{/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.m
> ap}] [2]
> ./AppKit.texi:101: This command can appear only outside of any environment, not
>  in environment @titlepage.
> @badenverr ...temp , not @inenvironment @thisenv }
>                                                   
> @checkenv ...@ifx @thisenv @temp @else @badenverr
>                                                   @fi
> @chapmacro #1#2#3->@checkenv {}
>                                @let @prevchapterdefs =@lastchapterdefs @let ...
>
> @startcontents ... @chapmacro {#1}{Yomitfromtoc}{}
>                                                   @savepageno = @pageno @beg...
>
> @contents ->@startcontents {@putwordTOC }
>                                          @openin 1 @tocreadfilename @space @...
> l.101 @contents
>               
> ?
> ./AppKit.texi:101: Emergency stop.
> @badenverr ...temp , not @inenvironment @thisenv }
>                                                   
> @checkenv ...@ifx @thisenv @temp @else @badenverr
>                                                   @fi
> @chapmacro #1#2#3->@checkenv {}
>                                @let @prevchapterdefs =@lastchapterdefs @let ...
>
> @startcontents ... @chapmacro {#1}{Yomitfromtoc}{}
>                                                   @savepageno = @pageno @beg...
>
> @contents ->@startcontents {@putwordTOC }
>                                          @openin 1 @tocreadfilename @space @...
> l.101 @contents
>               
> ./AppKit.texi:101:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on AppKit.log.
> makeinfo --html \
>                   \
> AppKit.texi; \
>                 if [ -f AppKit/AppKit_toc.html ]; \
>                 then \
>                   mv AppKit/AppKit.html .; \
>                   mv AppKit/AppKit_*.html .; \
>                   rmdir AppKit/AppKit; \
>                 fi
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui/work/libs-gui-gui-0_28_0/Documentation/manual'
> Making all for doc ReleaseNotes...
> gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for 'internal-doc-all'.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Edwin Acaer