gnome-shell-3.36.1 from svn Version 2020-04-11 fails with:
[19/187] Generating gnome-extensions.1 with a custom command.
FAILED: subprojects/extensions-tool/man/gnome-extensions.1
/usr/bin/a2x -D subprojects/extensions-tool/man --xsl-file
../subprojects/extensions-tool/man/stylesheet.xsl -f manpage
../subprojects/extensions-tool/man/gnome-extensions.txt
File "/usr/bin/a2x", line 76
print '%s: %s' % (PROG,msg)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I initially worked around this by adding -Dman=false to the command line
i.e.
mkdir build && \
cd build && \
meson --prefix=/usr -Dsystemd=false -Dman=false .. && \
ninja
That enabled the build to succeed, although without addressing the
underlying a2x problem.
Looking at the a2x problem, I believe the invalid syntax problem is
because I have:
/usr/bin/python -> python3
If I change that to:
/usr/bin/python -> python2
then the build succeeds (although with a warning which I don't see when
/usr/bin/python -> python3):
[40/187] Generating gnome-extensions.1 with a custom command.
a2x: WARNING: --destination-dir option is only applicable to HTML based
outputs
I don't recall how /usr/bin/python became symlink to python3 - perhaps
it should be to python2. Maybe that should be made explicit somewhere?
BTW I see there is an asciidoc-py3 available at:
https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-py3
Is it worth moving to that?
chris
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