Thank Lukas. I applied that patch and it did not work for me, at for the
incremental build. I will do a complete clean kick off the build process with
this patch to see if that resolves the issue.
Best,
Farhan
> On Jul 17, 2016, at 10:48 PM, Lukas Stabe <ahti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I ran into the same error a few weeks ago. I can’t remember where I found
> this and why it fixes things, but this patch made swift build again for me:
>
> diff --git a/cmake/modules/SwiftManpage.cmake
> b/cmake/modules/SwiftManpage.cmake
> index 480b100..3bb1af3 100644
> --- a/cmake/modules/SwiftManpage.cmake
> +++ b/cmake/modules/SwiftManpage.cmake
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function(manpage)
> unused_var
> COMMAND
> "${POD2MAN}" "--section" "${MP_MAN_SECTION}"
> - "--center" "${MP_PAGE_HEADER}" "--release"
> + "--center" "${MP_PAGE_HEADER}"
> "--name" "${MP_MAN_FILE_BASENAME}"
> "--stderr"
> "${MP_SOURCE}" > "${output_file_name}”
>
> I’m not familiar with pod2man, can someone more familiar shed some light on
> what this does and wether it could be fixed upstream?
>
> — Lukas
>
>> On 17 Jul 2016, at 21:58, Farhan Ahmed via swift-users
>> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Kyle for the help and link to the swiftenv. I didn’t know it was
>> available, and was wondering if there was one available… saves me the
>> trouble of writing one ;)
>>
>> I have all dependencies installed. The error seems to be that the
>> docs/tools/swift.1 file that is created is zero bytes, so I am thinking that
>> that file should not be zero bytes… back to figuring out why that file is
>> zero bytes.
>>
>> As an aside, to me this looks like it is trying to build docs or something
>> non-essential, therefore why throw an error, and not a warning and continue
>> with the build? (this is a question for you Swift build managers! … if
>> anyone from there is reading this.)
>>
>> Best,
>> Farhan
>>
>>> On Jul 17, 2016, at 5:14 AM, Kyle Fuller via swift-users
>>> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Farhan,
>>>
>>> To build Swift on ArchLinux you will need to install the perl package which
>>> includes pod2man. I think the list of dependencies at
>>> https://swiftenv.fuller.li/en/latest/building-swift.html#arch-linux is
>>> correct and should contain everything you need.
>>>
>>> $ pacman -S perl libbsd icu git libedit python2 clang make ninja
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am hoping someone would be able to help with the following problem:
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to build Swift 3 under ArchLinux. I have followed the build
>>>> instructions and everything has been cloned and kick off the build by
>>>> typing: ./swift/utils/build-script -R
>>>>
>>>> After a long while the build errors out at (emphasis mine):
>>>>
>>>> copying static files... done
>>>> copying extra files... done
>>>> dumping search index in English (code: en) ... done
>>>> dumping object inventory... done
>>>> build succeeded.
>>>> [574/574] Generating swift.1
>>>> FAILED: docs/tools/swift.1
>>>> cd /home/insha/build/Ninja-ReleaseAssert/swift-linux-x86_64/docs/tools &&
>>>> /usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man --section 1 --center Swift\ Documentation
>>>> --release --name swift --stderr /home/insha/swift/docs/tools/swift.pod >
>>>> /home/insha/build/Ninja-ReleaseAssert/swift-linux-x86_64/docs/tools/swift.1
>>>> Can't open swift: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man
>>>> line 70.
>>>> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
>>>> ./swift/utils/build-script: fatal error: command terminated with a
>>>> non-zero exit status 1, aborting
>>>>
>>>> So what am I doing wrong? What can I do to either fix this issue or skip
>>>> it if it is not essential (i.e. docs, etc.)? Any help and pointers would
>>>> be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Farhan
>>>>
>>>
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