Hey folks,
> I've looked over your report and baffling patch.
> This is really strange, and I don't have much to add.
>
> It seems like it might be related to the pathsubst rules in
> src/doc/Makefile.in.
> But I don't see the build directory getting used there.
Oh ho ho, this is fun! So, curiously, I can't reproduce this outside of
reprotest (with a build path variation).
Hm yes I don't immediately see how the pathsubst rules might be doing
this in practice either. Another interesting candidate might be the
doxy.py apparatus:
103 # Use doxygen to generate API documentation, translate it into RST
104 # format, and then create a composite of $(docsrc)'s RST and the
105 # generated files in rst_composite. Used by the html and substhtml
targets.
106 composite: Doxyfile $(docsrc)/version.py
107 rm -rf doxy rst_apiref rst_composite
108 $(DOXYGEN)
109 (cwd=`pwd`; cd $(docsrc)/tools && \
110 $(PYTHON) doxy.py -i $$cwd/doxy/xml -o $$cwd/rst_apiref)
It is of course feasible that this parser (or one of its dependencies)
has a bug.
Two other drive-thru suggestions:
* configgen.py has a bunch of global search-replaces that might be
misfiring. There's also a potentially suspicious newline snarfing
code that could conceivably be buggy as well:
# replace \ by \\, replace " by \", and ' ' by a newline with end string
# and start string at next line
docC = []
for line in split_doc:
if (line.strip() != "<br/>"):
docC.append(line.strip().replace('\\', '\\\\').
replace('"', '\\"').replace("<br>", ""))
* Memory corruption due to undefined behaviour somewhere in some
parser. (Sam, we often call this a "docbook-to-man issue", not
because the problem lies there, but due to the classic/notorious
reproducible bug #842635 in that package.)
Regards,
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