[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.18.0: Build errors

Wed Oct 5 05:54:04 UTC 2022

On 10/4/22 16:56, Scott Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 10:43:28 +0300
> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/3/22 17:10, Scott Andrews wrote:
>>> On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 15:35:24 +0300
>>> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On 9/21/22 19:48, Scott Andrews wrote:
>>>>> %prep
>>>>> %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}-release
>>>>> sed 's:/bin/sh:/usr/bin/sh:' -i macros.in
>>>>> sh autogen.sh --noconfigure
>>>>>
>>>>> %build
>>>>> _options=( --prefix=/usr
>>>>> --program-prefix=
>>>>> --sysconfdir=/etc
>>>>> --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
>>>>> --localstatedir=/var
>>>>> --with-crypto=libgcrypt
>>>>> --with-gnu-ld
>>>>> --with-archive
>>>>> --with-cap
>>>>> --with-acl
>>>>> --without-selinux
>>>>> --enable-zstd
>>>>> --enable-sqlite
>>>>> --enable-python
>>>>> --disable-openmp
>>>>> --disable-dependency-tracking
>>>>> --disable-silent-rules
>>>>> --disable-nls
>>>>> --disable-rpath)
>>>>> ./configure ${_options[@]}
>>>>> %{make_build}
>>>>>
>>>>> make[3]: Entering directory
>>>>> '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' no -s -t man
>>>>> fr/rpm.8.md -o fr/rpm.8 make[3]: no: No such file or directory
>>>>> make[3]: *** [Makefile:883: fr/rpm.8] Error 127
>>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>>>>> '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' make[3]: *** Waiting
>>>>> for unfinished jobs.... make[3]: Entering directory
>>>>> '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' no -s -t man
>>>>> ja/rpm.8.md -o ja/rpm.8 make[3]: no: No such file or directory
>>>>> make[3]: *** [Makefile:883: ja/rpm.8] Error 127
>>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>>>>> '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' make[3]: Entering
>>>>> directory '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' no -s -t
>>>>> man ja/rpm2cpio.8.md -o ja/rpm2cpio.8 make[3]: no: No such file or
>>>>> directory make[3]: *** [Makefile:883: ja/rpm2cpio.8] Error 127
>>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>>>>> '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' make[3]: Entering
>>>>> directory '/home/rpi/BUILD/rpm-4.18.0-release/docs/man' no -s -t
>>>>> man ja/rpmbuild.8.md -o ja/rpmbuild.8 make[3]: no: No such file or
>>>>> directory
>>>>
>>>> These are attempts to run 'pandoc' but it's not present, which is
>>>> where the "no" comes from. But pandoc isn't needed building rpm
>>>> from the source tarballs, the manual pages are shipped in the
>>>> tarball. Unless of course the .md files have been touched.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what those timestamps look on my system after unpacking the
>>>> 4.18.0 tarball:
>>>>
>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 pmatilai pmatilai  34668 Jun 28 10:16
>>>> docs/man/fr/rpm.8 -rw-r--r--. 1 pmatilai pmatilai  30566 Apr  7
>>>> 14:13 docs/man/fr/rpm.8.md -rw-r--r--. 1 pmatilai pmatilai   1270
>>>> Jun 28 10:16 docs/man/ja/rpm2cpio.8 -rw-r--r--. 1 pmatilai
>>>> pmatilai    658 Apr  7 14:13 docs/man/ja/rpm2cpio.8.md
>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 pmatilai pmatilai  72339 Jun 28 10:16
>>>> docs/man/ja/rpm.8 -rw-r--r--. 1 pmatilai pmatilai  34450 Apr  7
>>>> 14:13 docs/man/ja/rpm.8.md
>>>>
>>>> Also, the beta1 tarball had a bug wrt this, might want to
>>>> double-check that.
>>>>
>>>> 	- Panu -
>>>>   
>>>
>>> I cloned the rpm repository and then created a archive of the
>>> 4.18.0 tag
>>
>> Ah, that explains. That's not *at all* the same as the release
>> tarball, especially as long as we're on autotools-based build system.
>>
>>>
>>> When extracting the archive all the timestamps are dated as follows:
>>>
>>> ./fr:
>>> total 40K
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 09:55 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 8 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 09:55 ..
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  30K Sep 20 08:07 rpm.8.md
>>>
>>> ./ja:
>>> total 64K
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 09:55 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 8 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 09:55 ..
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  658 Sep 20 08:07 rpm2cpio.8.md
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  34K Sep 20 08:07 rpm.8.md
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 8.5K Sep 20 08:07 rpmbuild.8.md
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 1.6K Sep 20 08:07 rpmgraph.8.md
>>>
>>> This if from the tarball on rpm.org:
>>>
>>> ./fr:
>>> total 76K
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 10:02 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 8 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 10:02 ..
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  34K Jun 28 03:16 rpm.8
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  30K Apr  7 07:13 rpm.8.md
>>>
>>> ./ja:
>>> total 164K
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 10:02 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 8 scott scott 4.0K Oct  3 10:02 ..
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 1.3K Jun 28 03:16 rpm2cpio.8
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  658 Apr  7 07:13 rpm2cpio.8.md
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  71K Jun 28 03:16 rpm.8
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  34K Apr  7 07:13 rpm.8.md
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott  18K Jun 28 03:16 rpmbuild.8
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 8.5K Apr  7 07:13 rpmbuild.8.md
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 3.7K Jun 28 03:16 rpmgraph.8
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 1.6K Apr  7 07:13 rpmgraph.8.md
>>>
>>> I am on an ARM platform and pandoc is not available
>>>
>>> Is there a fix for building from the git version?
>>
>> Not at this time. Build from the release tarball instead, there's
>> even a blurb about this in the GH releases page:
>> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/releases (I did just
>> now expand on the rationale a bit)
>>
>> 	- Panu -
>>
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> 
> With your help I have managed to create a sed to get by this issue
> 
> In my spec file to build from the github sources
> 
> ./configure ${_options[@]}
> sed '/^SUBDIRS =/ s/docs//' -i Makefile
> %{make_build}
> 
> 
> It prevents the docs/man pages from being built and allows me to
> use the github sources.
> 
> I am OK with out the man pages.

Ok. Pandoc being the exotic thing it is, it may well make sense to make 
this an actual configure option that makes bootstrapping from git much 
more lightweight.

	- Panu -

> 
> Thank you for your insight and help
> 
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