This might help someone avoid the same issue or provide a clue to more knowledgeable folk.
I experienced doc generation failures on 9.3Stable for the security/heimdal and sysutils/log_analysis ports. Reverting from perl5.20 to perl5.16 "eliminated" the following problems. >From security/heimdal build log ---------------------------------------------- Making all in doc sed -e 's,[@]dbdir[@],/var/heimdal,g' -e 's,[@]PACKAGE_VERSION[@],1.5.2,g' < ./vars.tin > vars.texi.tmp chmod +x vars.texi.tmp mv vars.texi.tmp vars.texi restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && if (/bin/sh /var/ports/usr/ports/security/heimdal/work/heimdal-1.5.2/missing --run makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then for f in ./heimdal.info ./heimdal.info-[0-9] ./heimdal.info-[0-9][0-9] ./heimdal.i[0-9] ./heimdal.i[0-9][0-9]; do if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; done; else :; fi && cd "$am__cwd"; if /bin/sh /var/ports/usr/ports/security/heimdal/work/heimdal-1.5.2/missing --run makeinfo --css-include=./heimdal.css -I . -o ./heimdal.info ./heimdal.texi; then rc=0; CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .; else rc=$?; CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && $restore $backupdir/* `echo "././heimdal.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; fi; rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc ./whatis.texi:39: unknown command `def' ./whatis.texi:39: unknown command `xsub' ./whatis.texi:40: unknown command `global' ./whatis.texi:40: unknown command `let' ./whatis.texi:40: unknown command `xsub' (possibly involving @sub) ./win2k.texi:314: warning: @end should only appear at a line beginning *** [./heimdal.info] Error code 1 Stop in /var/ports/usr/ports/security/heimdal/work/heimdal-1.5.2/doc. *** [all-recursive] Error code 1 >From sysutils/log_analysis log files, upstream has been unchanged for around 2 years ------------------------------------- ===> Building for log_analysis-0.46 /usr/local/bin/pod2man log_analysis > log_analysis.1 log_analysis around line 8793: You forgot a '=back' before '=head2' log_analysis around line 8802: '=item' outside of any '=over' POD document had syntax errors at /usr/local/bin/pod2man line 71. *** [log_analysis.1] Error code 255 Stop in /var/ports/usr/ports/sysutils/log_analysis/work/log_analysis-0.46. *** [do-build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/log_analysis. ---------------------------------- texinfo-5.2.20140608 is installed, and the /etc/src.conf contains WITHOUT_INFO=YES Regards, Dewayne _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"