Re: build from source

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

This is more of a zsh-workers than -users thing but I'll try to give a
short and not too technical answer.

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 2:31 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> cp: cannot stat './Doc/help.txt': No such file or directory
>
> ... doesn't sound serious however that file does exist

I believe this error is trying to copy a newly built help.txt from a
temporary location into the spot where you find one existing.

In order to build help.txt you need both "man" and "perl" installed,
as I recall, plus "yodl" to build the input for "man".

> % make check
>
> Test ./C02cond.ztst failed: bad status 1, expected 0 from:
>    [[ $newnewnew -nt $zlnfs && ! ($unmodified -nt $zlnfs) ]]
> Was testing: -nt cond
> ./C02cond.ztst: test failed.

This is checking whether the "file A is newer than file B" test works
properly.  If you're building on Cygwin or the build directory is on a
remote mounted file system, this frequently fails because the file
creation timestamps may be off.

You can run

% ZTST_continue=1 make check TESTNUM=C02

to have it check the remainder of C02cond just in case there's
anything else failing, otherwise this is likely safe to ignore.