Re: Installation fails because the documentation is not building

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 February 2011 06:55, Wayne Davison <wayned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Vincent Stemen <vince.lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I assume it is failing on the "test -s" statement, because when I look in
>> the
>> Doc directory, all the man files ending in ".1" are zero length.
>>
>
> The Doc Makefile will create 0-length *.1 files if it doesn't think that
> yodl is around. Perhaps you ran make before yodl was installed, and didn't
> remove those files?  It looks like only a "make realclean"  will remove the
> *.1 files (and you'd probably want to just manually remove the *.1 files
> instead of going to that extreme).
>
> I'm not sure why none of the lesser clean targets will clean up the *.1
> files, though.  Maybe it is to help folks who don't have yodl installed and
> get the *.1 files manually?

The .1 files are distributed in the release tarballs so people don't
need yodl to build those.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson