Re: Trouble with 'make prefix=/usr info'

> Craig Moore venit, vidit, dixit 22.12.2009 17:14:
>> 2009/12/22 Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>:
>>> Craig Moore venit, vidit, dixit 22.12.2009 16:50:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting the following error when I make the info target:
>>>>
>>>> $ make prefix=/usr info
>>>> make -C Documentation info
>>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/local/software/git-1.6.5.7/Documentation'
>>>> make[2]: Entering directory `/local/software/git-1.6.5.7'
>>>> make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/local/software/git-1.6.5.7'
>>>>     DB2TEXI user-manual.texi
>>>> Usage: jw [<options>] <sgml_file>
>>>> where <options> are:
>>>>   -f|--frontend <frontend>:      Specify the frontend (source format)
>>>>                                  (default is docbook)
>>>>   -b|--backend <backend>:        Specify the backend (destination format)
>>>>                                  (default is html)
>>>>   -c|--cat <file>:               Specify an extra SGML open catalog
>>>>   -n|--nostd:                    Do not use the standard SGML open catalogs
>>>>   -d|--dsl <file>|default|none:  Specify an alternate style sheet
>>>>                                  (default is to use the default stylesheet)
>>>>   -l|--dcl <file>:               Specify an alternate SGML declaration
>>>>                                  (usual ones like xml.dcl get detected
>>>> automatically)
>>>>   -s|--sgmlbase <path>:          Change base directory for SGML distribution
>>>>                                  (usually /usr/share/sgml)
>>>>   -p|--parser <program>:         Specify the parser if several are installed
>>>>                                   (jade or openjade)
>>>>   -o|--output <directory>:       Set output directory
>>>>   -u|--nochunks:                 Output only one big file
>>>>                                  (overrides the stylesheet settings)
>>>>   -i|--include <section>:        Specify a SGML marked section to include
>>>>                                  (should be marked as "ignore" in the SGML text)
>>>>   -w|--warning <warning_type>|list: Control warnings or display the allowed
>>>> warning types
>>>>   -e|--errors <error_type>|list: Control errors or display the allowed error types
>>>>   -h|--help:                     Print this help message and exit
>>>>   -V <variable[=value]>:         Set a variable
>>>>   -v|--version:                  Print the version and exit
>>>> make[1]: *** [user-manual.texi] Error 1
>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/software/git-1.6.5.7/Documentation'
>>>> make: *** [info] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> I can see that the error is likely related to the fact that it enters the
>>>> Documentation directing, then exits the Documentation directory, and then tries
>>>> to build the user-manual.texi file in the root directory (however, that file is
>>>> in the Documentation directory, which it just left). I've tried to track down
>>>> and change where it exits the Documentation directory, but I've had no success.
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate any recommendations you might have. I've already been able to
>>>> install git, but I couldn't install the 'info' target because of this error.
>>>
>>> Does it work without prefix?
>>> Also, you may want to cd into Documentation and try to make there.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hey Michael,
>>
>> Here is what happens when I run it inside the Documentation directory
>> (without the prefix):
>>
>> user@server: /local/software/git-1.6.5.7/Documentation
>> $ make info
>>     SUBDIR ../
>> make[1]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
>>     DB2TEXI user-manual.texi
>> Usage: jw [<options>] <sgml_file>
>> where <options> are:
>>   -f|--frontend <frontend>:      Specify the frontend (source format)
>>                                  (default is docbook)
>>   -b|--backend <backend>:        Specify the backend (destination format)
>>                                  (default is html)
>>   -c|--cat <file>:               Specify an extra SGML open catalog
>>   -n|--nostd:                    Do not use the standard SGML open catalogs
>>   -d|--dsl <file>|default|none:  Specify an alternate style sheet
>>                                  (default is to use the default stylesheet)
>>   -l|--dcl <file>:               Specify an alternate SGML declaration
>>                                  (usual ones like xml.dcl get detected
>> automatically)
>>   -s|--sgmlbase <path>:          Change base directory for SGML distribution
>>                                  (usually /usr/share/sgml)
>>   -p|--parser <program>:         Specify the parser if several are installed
>>                                   (jade or openjade)
>>   -o|--output <directory>:       Set output directory
>>   -u|--nochunks:                 Output only one big file
>>                                  (overrides the stylesheet settings)
>>   -i|--include <section>:        Specify a SGML marked section to include
>>                                  (should be marked as "ignore" in the SGML text)
>>   -w|--warning <warning_type>|list: Control warnings or display the
>> allowed warning types
>>   -e|--errors <error_type>|list: Control errors or display the allowed
>> error types
>>   -h|--help:                     Print this help message and exit
>>   -V <variable[=value]>:         Set a variable
>>   -v|--version:                  Print the version and exit
>> make: *** [user-manual.texi] Error 1
>>
>> The first thing it does is go to the directory above, weird.
>>
>> Craig
>
> I think it only looks like that. SUBDIR processing is finished at that
> point, and the DB2TEXI line is where user-manual.texi is actually being
> processed, and that's what's causing the error. Did you set the texinfo
> processor in the Makefile or using variables?
>
> V=1 make info
>
> will show you the exact commands being executed.
>
> Michael
>