From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6540 invoked by alias); 6 Sep 2012 20:55:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 30660 Received: (qmail 27338 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2012 20:55:46 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sym2.noone.org does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 22:47:56 +0200 From: Axel Beckert To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: Zsh on Precise Pangolin; META-FAQ does not build properly under recent yodl Message-ID: <20120906204755.GL30122@sym.noone.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@zsh.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 X-Machine: sym2 x86_64 X-Editor: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 Face: 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 Organization: DeuxChevaux.org -- The =?iso-8859-1?Q?Citr?= =?iso-8859-1?B?b+tu?= 2CV Database User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Hi, On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:14:45AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've just set up a Ubuntu 12.04 desktop. Zsh is not a default package > on Ubuntu, apt-get installs 4.3.17 (the zsh-beta package is actually > older, only 4.3.12-dev-something). So I decided to build zsh 5.0.0. > > After installing build-essential, yodl, and some other miscellaneous > packages that Ubuntu makes it unnecessarily difficult to discover that > you need (Software Center may look like the Apple Store, but it's > nowhere near as helpful as Synaptic) I was able to configure and build > zsh from the sourceforge repository. > > However, by chance I noticed that META-FAQ comes out like this: > > The latest version of this META-FAQ can be found at any of the FTP sites > listed below. > SECTHEADAuthor > Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad . > Zsh is now maintained by the members of the zsh-workers mailing > list . The development is currently > coordinated by Peter Stephenson . The coordinator > can be contacted at , but matters relating to > the code should generally go to the mailing list. > SECTHEADAvailability > Zsh is available from the following anonymous FTP sites. [...] I can confirm that this problem also exists in Debian's 4.3.17 (Wheezy aka Testing; Unstable) and 5.0.0 (Experimental) packages. > The version of yodl available via apt-get for this distribution is > 3.00.0. Same for Debian Testing and Unstable. > The newline in the definition of sect() from META-FAQ.yo is > being lost for some reason. I just checked my build on MacOS Lion > (which is even more of a pain to set up, because Xcode no longer > includes any of the GNU toolchain) where yodl is 2.13.2 [*] and > actually it comes out the same way there, so this may have been broken > for a while. Debian Stable aka Squeeze seems to be fine: zsh 4.3.10 and yodl 2.15.2. But IIRC back then, the Debian zsh package took the pre-compiled docs from the official tarball... > It's correct in the zsh tarball so PWS must have a > different version of yodl on his build host (?). ... while we build the docs with adapted paths at build time for a year or such. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | abe@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | abe@noone.org (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web)