make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Federico Bruni
I'm having trouble with make, I've never had this kind of problem. Maybe some system update broke something? $ make [...] /home/fede/lilypond-git/scripts/build/out/run-and-check LANG= makeinfo --enable-encoding --error-limit=0 -I /home/fede/lilypond-git/Documentation -I. -I./out

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I'm having trouble with make, I've never had this kind of problem. Maybe some system update broke something? `Broken' is the wrong word, but ... I'm on debian sid texinfo v5.1 ... don't use version 5.1 but stay with version 4.13! All the error and warning messages you are getting deserve

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: I'm having trouble with make, I've never had this kind of problem. Maybe some system update broke something? `Broken' is the wrong word, but ... I'm on debian sid texinfo v5.1 ... don't use version 5.1 but stay with version 4.13! All the error and

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
All the error and warning messages you are getting deserve fixes, but given that 5.1 is about 20 or more times slower than 4.13, there's currently no gain to update. [...] for a normal make which builds documentation without images, the added time at the end is already a slight nuisance

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: All the error and warning messages you are getting deserve fixes, but given that 5.1 is about 20 or more times slower than 4.13, there's currently no gain to update. [...] for a normal make which builds documentation without images, the added time at the

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
As distributions move on to Texinfo 5, we are going to get a rather awkward transitioning problem. I fear so. On the other hand, the warning messages are reasonable (at least most of the time :-), and fixing them should be straightforward. A completely different issue is our hand-crafted

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/28 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org As distributions move on to Texinfo 5, we are going to get a rather awkward transitioning problem. I fear so. On the other hand, the warning messages are reasonable (at least most of the time :-), and fixing them should be straightforward. A

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
maybe ./configure should check the installed version of texinfo and print a warning if it's 4.13? Until errors and bad output are fixed, I would even suggest to abort for a version larger than 4.13. Werner ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/28 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org A completely different issue is our hand-crafted `lilypond-texi2html.init' file. No idea whether this is compatible with texinfo 5. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2011-02/msg00013.html

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/28 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org maybe ./configure should check the installed version of texinfo and print a warning if it's 4.13? Until errors and bad output are fixed, I would even suggest to abort for a version larger than 4.13. added to the tracker:

Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

2013-05-28 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/28 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com maybe ./configure should check the installed version of texinfo and print a warning if it's 4.13? tonight I'll downgrade texinfo and try again ok, I've downgraded to v4.13 in debian stable and pinned the package I also had to (re?)install