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Date:      Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:20:03 -0700
From:      newsbox@mjws.net
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Joe Altman <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com>
Subject:   Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails
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In-Reply-To: <20110529222909.GA11577@SDF.ORG>
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> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:32:37PM +0000, Joe Altman wrote:
>>
>> There is this thread from 2009, and it looks like the same issue as
>> the one in this message:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209892.html
>>
>> It looks like I'll need to open a bug report with the Doc project
>> team.
>
> After reading the thread referenced above, and looking at the output
> of my build, I noticed that the build was failing in different areas.
>
> So I decided to run make on the port multiple times, and eventually
> the port installed successfully. However, the port in my tree (dated #
> $FreeBSD: ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/Makefile,v 1.36 2011/05/22
> 14:28:49 blackend Exp $) in a fresh tree made only through
> 2010, according to the copyright at the top of the
> handbook. Individual files in that doc tree were variously dated; the
> newest being 8/2010.
>
> So I ran make, multiple times, on the source; and that gave me a doc
> tree dated 2011. Most of the files there were dated 5/29/11. A few
> exceptions were found in image files dated 3/2010, which all loaded in
> SeaMonkey, except for some files in: advanced-networking, security,
> vinum, geom. I may have missed others in other books.
>
> To summarize:
>
> 1) It appears that make is, in this case, a hammer that must be
> applied more than once to either the source or the port.
>
> 2) Not all images are seen as valid, and according to make may have
> bad magic numbers. If building from source is used on a fresh tree, it
> may be possible to have make ignore all the errors by using the -k
> flag.
>
> 3) I have no idea how things will go with an upgrade to the doc
> source; I normally use portupgrade, so I suppose I will find out
> later.
>
> I've submitted a bug report.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
>

Hi,
This might not be the same as an issue I had because I'm not really sure
how the docs are built. I did not have doc in my cvs supfile at first. I
have the following in my cvs supfile:

src-all
ports-all tag=.
doc-all tag=.

And my issue went away if I remember correctly.

Regards,
Mike






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