Re: Local install of GNUN does not detect errors (plus typo in mailfail)

[Dora Scilipoti]

On 11/8/21 9:00 AM, Ineiev wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 06:56:09PM +0100, Dora Scilipoti wrote:


>> ~/GNU-Local/www/server/gnun$ make ../../gnu/gnu.es.html
>> /usr/local/libexec/gnun/validate-html-notify --dry-run bug-gnun@gnu.org
>> ../../gnu/gnu.html
>> /usr/local/libexec/gnun/mailfail: line 56:
>> /usr/local/bin/gnun-validate-html: No such file or directory
>> make: *** [GNUmakefile:1000: ../../gnu/po/gnu.proto] Error 127

> It looks like the validation scripts haven't been installed---the first
> guess is, the configure script didn't see xmllint; what did it output?

I didn't keep a copy of any of the outputs. So I did 'make uninstall'
in order to reinstall it and check the output. It seems that something
went wrong with xmllint:

/home/dora/Scaricati/gnun-1.1# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for GNU make... make
checking whether to use www.gnu.org Multiviews naming conventions... yes
checking whether to enable sorting... checking whether `date' supports
the `-d' option... yes
checking for gawk... /usr/bin/gawk
checking if /usr/bin/gawk supports gsub()... yes
checking if /usr/bin/gawk supports match(a,b,c)... yes
checking for /bin/bash... /bin/bash
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking whether sed supports --in-place option... yes
checking whether sed supports the `e' option of the `s' command... yes
checking whether sed supports the `q' command with an exit code... yes
checking for sed-4.3 bug... no
checking for base64... /usr/bin/base64
checking for uuencode... /usr/bin/uuencode
checking for mktemp... /usr/bin/mktemp
checking whether mktemp supports -t... yes
checking for msgcat... /usr/bin/msgcat
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for msgexec... /usr/bin/msgexec
checking for msgmerge that supports --previous... /bin/msgmerge
checking for msgattrib that supports --clear-previous... /bin/msgattrib
checking whether msgattrib supports --previous... yes
checking for wdiff... /usr/bin/wdiff
checking for po4a-gettextize... /usr/bin/po4a-gettextize
checking for po4a-translate... /usr/bin/po4a-translate
checking if po4a version is at least 0.37... yes
checking for mail... /usr/bin/mail
checking whether `mail' is from GNU Mailutils... yes
checking for cvs... /usr/bin/cvs
checking for svn... no
checking for bzr... no
==> checking for xmllint... no <==
checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
checking for localedef... /usr/bin/localedef
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating dtd/Makefile
config.status: creating config.mk
config.status: creating gnun-preconvert
## ------- ##
## Results ##
## ------- ##
Basic make operations...                yes
PO files manipulation, make report...   yes
gnun-add-fuzzy-diff...                  yes
POT/HTML generation...                  yes
HTML validation...                      no
NOTIFY/ANNOUNCE support...              yes
VCS support...                          yes (CVS)
Use Multiviews naming conventions...    yes
Sorting support                         yes

Type "make" to build the scripts, "make install" to install them
along with the manuals, and "make installcheck" to run tests.


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