[darcs-users] darcs-1.0.4pre2 - build fails on docs

[Marnix Klooster]

David Roundy cited and wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:50:21PM +0200, Gour wrote:
>  
>
>>Attempt to build latest darcs fails on docs:
>>
>>[...]
>> *** processing declarations ***
>>
>>OPENING /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.4/work/darcs-1.0.4/darcs.tex
>>
>>Cannot create directory manual/: File exists, reusing it.
>>
>>Note: Working directory is /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.4/work/darcs-1.0.4/manual
>>Note: Images will be generated in /tmp/l2h21793
>>
>>Fatal (syswait): exec "/usr/bin/perl5.8.6 /usr/lib/latex2html/texexpand.pl  -auto_exclude -save_styles /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.4/work/darcs-1.0.4/manual/TMP/styles -texinputs /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.4/work/darcs-1.0.4 -out /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.4/work/darcs-1.0.4/manual/TMP/darcs /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.4/work/darcs-1.0.4/darcs.tex" failed: No such file or directory
>> at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 779
>> texexpand  failed: No such file or directory
>>Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/latex2html line 39.
>>make: *** [manual/index.html] Error 2
>>
>>
>>If 'doc' flag is not in use, everything is fine.
>>    
>>
>
>Does the file darcs.tex actually exist? It ought to have been created by an
>earlier call to preproc.  I haven't been able to reproduce this error.
>Could you send a log of the entire build to me (perhaps off-list as it may
>be sort of long)?
>  
>

I have the same problem, from 1.0.3rc2 and upwards.

However, I'm suspecting that this is not a darcs issue, but a latex2html 
issue (or of its configuration).  I'm having this on an up-to-date 
(stable) Gentoo distro.  (And from Gour's message I see that he's using 
Gentoo as well.)

I haven't had the time to figure this out a bit better, but latex2html 
is complaining about files manual/TMP/styles and manual/TMP/darcs not 
being present (relative to the build directory root).  And it is 
certainly right about that.  TMP contains a number of dbm files 
(.dir/.pag pairs), but none with names resembling 'styles' or 'darcs'.

Here is the relevant part of the build output in full:

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./preproc darcs.lhs --html > darcs.tex
latex2html -split +1 -dir manual darcs.tex
Note: Loading ./.latex2html-init
Note: Initialising with file: .latex2html-init
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002-2-1 (1.71)
by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.

Revised and extended by:
 Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan and others
 ...producing markup for HTML version 3.2



 Extension: loading /usr/lib/latex2html/versions/latin1.pl
 HTML version: loading /usr/lib/latex2html/versions/html3_2.pl

  *** processing declarations ***

  OPENING /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.3-r1/work/darcs-1.0.3/darcs.tex

  Cannot create directory manual/: Bestand bestaat, reusing it.
  Reusing directory manual/:

  Note: Working directory is 
/var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.3-r1/work/darcs-1.0.3/manual
  Note: Images will be generated in /tmp/l2h14334

  Fatal (syswait): exec "/usr/bin/perl5.8.5 
/usr/lib/latex2html/texexpand.pl  -auto_exclude -save_styles 
/var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.3-r1/work/darcs-1.0.3/manual/TMP/styles 
-texinputs /var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.3-r1/work/darcs-1.0.3 -out 
/var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.3-r1/work/darcs-1.0.3/manual/TMP/darcs 
/var/tmp/portage/darcs-1.0.3-r1/work/darcs-1.0.3/darcs.tex" failed: 
Onbekend bestand of map
   at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 779



   Loading /usr/lib/latex2html/styles/texdefs.perl...
   Error: Cannot read 'TMP/styles': Onbekend bestand of map

   Reading ...
   Error: Cannot read 'TMP/darcs': Onbekend bestand of map
   Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/latex2html line 39.

 >>>>>>>>>>

(And sorry for the Dutch phrases :-)  "Onbekend bestand of map" == "No 
such file or directory".)

Hope this helps someone.

Groetjes,
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Marnix