OT: [erlang-bugs] Building docs for R13B-03 fails

[Anders Nygren]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Bengt Kleberg
<bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> It has been well over a year since last time I mentioned this paper
> "Recursive Make Considered Harmful",
> (http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/). so I hope it is ok that I
> do it again.
>
> Nice little reading for those that find themselves wondering if they are
> the only ones that think make is somewhat lacking, at times.

For anyone interested there is
http://code.google.com/p/erlang-t-build/
Which provides non-recursive make for erlang projects

/Anders

>
>
> bengt
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:02 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I did some further investigations and found that simply calling make
>> in all doc/src
>> directories works better then trying to run make recursively.
>>
>> pwd=`pwd`
>> for i in `find . -wholename '*/doc/src'` ; do
>>     (cd $i ; make man ERL_TOP=$pwd )
>> done
>>
>> (using Erlang R12B-02-1 edoc and docbuilder, and the attached docb_gen script)
>> generates manpages perfectly, make html and make pdf though suffer from runtime
>> errors while running xsltproc.
>>
>> Running make recursively reveals a whole bunch of problems with
>> missing and redefined
>> 'docs' targets in makefiles.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM,  <lars@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > Hi Sergei,
>> > we started to build our documentation with open source tools in R13B03 so it
>> > would be possible to build the doc from the delivered sources.
>> >
>> > But it's still only built in house because we hadn't time to test it but the plan is
>> > to have it work for everyone in R13B04.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your report, we'll have a look at those fault.
>> >
>> > Regards Lars
>> >
>> >
>> > Sergei Golovan wrote:
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to build Erlang documentation from the sources (the goal is
>> >> to switch from prebuilt docs for Debian Erlang packages as building
>> >> them from the source is preferable).
>> >>
>> >> To do that I run
>> >> make
>> >> make TYPE=docs
>> >> (in fact, make libs doesn't recognize TYPE, so I had to replace "make
>> >> opt" by "make $(TYPE) in the top-level Makefile).
>> >>
>> >> and I've found several problems which make build fail:
>> >>
>> >> 1) For some XML files (e.g. erts/docs/src/book.xml) xsltproc reports
>> >> runtime errors about undefined variables (partnum in line 871 and 963
>> >> of db_pdf.xsl, in lines 1075 and 1173 of db_html.xsl). Is this a bug
>> >> in the stylesheets or in xsltproc? (Both 1.1.24 from Debian stable and
>> >> 1.1.26 from Debian unstable failed.)
>> >>
>> >> 2) wx application has duplicated targets html and docs in its makefile.
>> >>
>> >> 3) wx application (and others too) require docb_gen script to generate
>> >> XML docs sources. It is missing. (I suppose that it is a simple
>> >> wrapper around docb_gen Erlang module and could be recreated, but It'd
>> >> be better if it were shipped in Erlang sources.)
>> >>
>> >> Is Erlang documentation supposed to be buildable from the source, or
>> >> it still requires some unavailable tools?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers!
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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