Jan Synáček <jan.syna...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Jan Synáček <jan.syna...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> I'm getting strange errors: >>> >>> ... >>> HELP2MAN doc/guix-daemon.1 >>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from guix-daemon >>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr >>> WARNING: 'help2man' is missing on your system. >>> You should only need it if you modified a dependency of a man page. >>> You may want to install the GNU Help2man package: >>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/> >>> Makefile:4893: recipe for target 'doc/guix-daemon.1' failed >>> make: [doc/guix-daemon.1] Error 127 (ignored) >>> ... >>> >>> help2man *is* present on my system. Later on, more man pages in doc/ >>> are built just fine.
>> Are you building from the Git repository or the release tarball? > > I'm building from the 0.11 release tarball. Humm, this is really weird. Building from tarball is not supposed to trigger rebuilding any of the manpages which are already included. >> When you execute make again does it try to rebuild 'doc/guix-daemon.1' >> if yes, does it succeed? > > It tries again but never succeeds. > > However, after rebooting my machine, I cannot reproduce this anymore... bahhh... I will inspect what happens on Alex side then. Thank you for the details. -- Mathieu Lirzin
