is yodl required to build zsh?

is yodl required to build zsh?

[Denis Lagno]

Hi,

I tried to build zsh-current from cvs and make bails, apparently because of absence of yodl: 

( \
    for modfile in Zsh/mod_cap.yo Zsh/mod_clone.yo Zsh/mod_compctl.yo Zsh/mod_complete.yo Zsh/mod_complist.yo Zsh/mod_computil.
yo Zsh/mod_datetime.yo Zsh/mod_deltochar.yo Zsh/mod_example.yo Zsh/mod_files.yo Zsh/mod_mapfile.yo Zsh/mod_mathfunc.yo Zsh/mod_
newuser.yo Zsh/mod_parameter.yo Zsh/mod_pcre.yo Zsh/mod_sched.yo Zsh/mod_socket.yo Zsh/mod_stat.yo  Zsh/mod_system.yo Zsh/mod_t
cp.yo Zsh/mod_termcap.yo Zsh/mod_terminfo.yo Zsh/mod_zftp.yo Zsh/mod_zle.yo Zsh/mod_zleparameter.yo Zsh/mod_zprof.yo Zsh/mod_zp
ty.yo Zsh/mod_zselect.yo Zsh/mod_zutil.yo; do \
        sed -n '1{s|^COMMENT(!MOD!\(.*\)$|menu(The \1 Module)|;p;q;}' \
            < ./$modfile; \
    done \
) > ./Zsh/manmodmenu.yo
: yodl -o zsh.texi -I. -w ztexi.yo version.yo zsh.yo; \
test -f zsh.texi
gmake[1]: *** [zsh.texi] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/flam/volatile/worksrc/zsh/Doc'
gmake: *** [all] Error 1

Is yodl required?  Or some prebuilt info files available?

Re: is yodl required to build zsh?

[Bart Schaefer]

Yodl is required to build zsh straight out of CVS, because it is assumed 
that only developers do so and that all developers will install the full
suite of tools needed.

The "stable" releases come in two parts, source and documentation, and
if you first unpack the source and then unpack the documentation, you
end up with a directory tree in which yodl is not required for "make".
However, unpacking the stable doc into the CVS sandbox does not work,
because new doc files have been added since the last stable release.