Re: bash 5.3, rc2, "make install" does not populate the share/man/man1 directory
On 6/14/25 3:07 AM, Stan Marsh wrote: I found the problem (I think). See below: touch bashref.dvi builtins.pdf bashref.pdf bashref.html bash.pdf bashref.info bash.info builtins.0 rbash.0 So, how to fix this? See above. Note: I think I have done this successfully in the past (with bash "make install", so I assume the "makeinfo" thing is new. It's not. You probably did it with a release version, not a pre-release version. Non-release versions of bash ship with formatted documentation that may or may not be up-to-date; the announcement contains "This tar file includes the formatted documentation (you should be able to generate updated versions yourself)." Release versions of bash always contain up-to-date versions of the formatted documentation so you don't need to build it yourself. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: bash 5.3, rc2, "make install" does not populate the share/man/man1 directory
On 6/14/25 5:17 AM, Stan Marsh wrote: 1) Why is the error ignored, making it almost impossible to determine that something went wrong? Because it shouldn't be a fatal error in a pre-release version, where we're mostly interested in bash bugs. 2) Shouldn't the problem (that texinfo isn't installed on the system) be caught earlier in the process (i.e., during the "configure" step) ? No, texinfo is not a dependency. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
