upstream zsh fails to generate man pages

upstream zsh fails to generate man pages

[Ruslan Dautkhanov]

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Hello!

zsh from master fails to build man pages

$ make
> . . .
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rdautkha/zsh/zsh/Src'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rdautkha/zsh/zsh/Src'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rdautkha/zsh/zsh/Doc'
> perl ../Util/helpfiles \
>     zshbuiltins.1 help help.txt \
>     || rm -f help.txt help/*
> helpfiles: attempting man zshbuiltins.1 >help/man.tmp
> No manual entry for zshbuiltins.1
> helpfiles: attempting nroff -man zshbuiltins.1 >help/man.tmp
> helpfiles: man and nroff -man both failed for zshbuiltins.1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rdautkha/zsh/zsh/Doc'


All of the produced .1 files are of zero length

$ la ./Doc/*.1
> . . .
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rdautkha analysts 0 Oct 14 17:58 ./Doc/zshroadmap.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rdautkha analysts 0 Oct 14 17:58 ./Doc/zshtcpsys.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rdautkha analysts 0 Oct 14 17:58 ./Doc/zshzftpsys.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rdautkha analysts 0 Oct 14 17:58 ./Doc/zshzle.1


RHEL 7.6
autoconf 2.69
gcc 4.8.5
make.x86_64                        1:3.82-23.el7
Let me know if there is a way to fix this?


Thank you,
Ruslan Dautkhanov

Re: upstream zsh fails to generate man pages

[Peter Stephenson]

On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 09:53 -0600, Ruslan Dautkhanov wrote:
> zsh from master fails to build man pages

I suspect you just don't have YODL installed.  Because it's not widely
used, instead of failing completely when it fails to find it, the
configuration script just replaces it with an empty command.  It's
usually available as a package (probably largely for the benefit of
building zsh).

If you install it you'll need to run "config.status --recheck" to pick
it up.

pws