On 17 November 2014 21:05, Sami Kerola <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 November 2014 22:15, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I checked out
> > the 2.10 tag of hello, but when I "make wwwdoc" I get an error:
> >
> > $ make wwwdoc
> > rm -rf doc/wwwtemp && mkdir doc/wwwtemp
> > cd doc/wwwtemp \
> >     && ln -s ../*.texi . \
> >     && env GENDOCS_TEMPLATE_DIR=doc build-aux/gendocs.sh --email
> > [email protected] hello Hello, GNU World
> > /home/rrt/.local/var/repo/hello/doc/wwwtemp
> > env: build-aux/gendocs.sh: No such file or directory
> > cp -arf doc/wwwtemp/manual/. /home/rrt/gnu/www/hello/manual
> > cp: cannot stat 'doc/wwwtemp/manual/.': No such file or directory
> > make: *** [wwwdoc] Error 1
> >
> > This looks like a bug: there's a missing ../ before
> build-aux/gendocs.sh. I
> > guess this is worth fixing? Sorry I'm rather too busy to do this properly
> > right now, but if you do I'll happily make and update the docs.
>
> Is the wwwdoc build target earlier method of making the update?
>

I guess. I hadn't found the later one (it was silly of me not to look in
README-release).


> Has a tip of web-manual-update that also has small issue.
>
> IMHO the web-manual-update [should] fail early if CVSROOT when not set,


I agree.


> If the web-manual-update works for you then I think the wwwdoc target
> should possibly be cleaned up. What do you think?
>

I think web-manual-update should be used, and wwwdoc removed (so I've
removed the wwwdoc target). I just ran "web-manual-update" and it seemed to
work for me, so I guess the CVSROOT error is really a permissions problem
in disguise, since I didn't have it set.

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