a2ps install from source fails now due text syntax errors

[kwolcott]

Excerpt from install log:

a2ps.texi:47: warning: redefining Texinfo language command: @LaTeX
a2ps.texi:422: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:420: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:435: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:521: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:2800: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:4122: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:5669: @end example seen before @var closing brace
a2ps.texi:5677: @var missing closing brace
a2ps.texi:5871: @end example seen before @var closing brace
a2ps.texi:5876: @var missing closing brace
a2ps.texi:6219: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
a2ps.texi:6348: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
a2ps.texi:6588: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace

[kencu (Ken)]

see #47881 for the original ticket about this.

[kwolcott]

What do I need to do on my end? I just run selfupdate again and clean and install from source and get the same errors.

[kencu (Ken)]

it's broken.

someone will need to fix it.

there's nothing you can do at present.

[kencu (Ken)]

Oh, one thing you can do is disable the texinfo port.

Then all will be well -- you can re-enable it after you build this.

[kwolcott]

That worked :-)

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

As I mentioned in #66916, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem noted in #47881. I built a2ps successfully with the texinfo port active. The situation must be a little more complicated.

[kencu (Ken)]

build fails 100% of the time for me if texinfo is active.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In a0182b7395222b075f63b8f290bcd03c5e8b116b/macports-ports (master):

a2ps: disable rebuilding of docs with makeinfo

See: #66923

[kencu (Ken)]

still not working, unfortunately:

 % port -v installed | grep active
  db48 @4.8.30_4 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T21:21:15-0800'
  gdbm @1.23_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T19:25:50-0800'
  gettext @0.21_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T19:25:28-0800'
  gettext-runtime @0.21_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T19:19:55-0800'
  gettext-tools-libs @0.21_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-29T15:34:36-0800'
  libiconv @1.17_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T19:19:19-0800'
  libtextstyle @0.21_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T19:21:08-0800'
  ncurses @6.4_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2023-01-04T23:32:54-0800'
  perl5.34 @5.34.1_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T21:24:10-0800'
  psutils @p17_1 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-27T13:43:32-0800'
  readline @8.1.2.000_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2022-12-25T19:25:40-0800'
  texinfo @7.0.2_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 22' archs='arm64' date='2023-02-04T23:08:11-0800'

Making install in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_macportsofficial_macports-ports_print_a2ps/a2ps/work/a2ps-4.14/doc'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
	am__cwd=`pwd` && cd . && \
	rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
	if (/bin/sh /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_macportsofficial_macports-ports_print_a2ps/a2ps/work/a2ps-4.14/auxdir/missing --run makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
	  for f in a2ps.info a2ps.info-[0-9] a2ps.info-[0-9][0-9] a2ps.i[0-9] a2ps.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 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_macportsofficial_macports-ports_print_a2ps/a2ps/work/a2ps-4.14/auxdir/missing --run makeinfo   -I . \
	 -o a2ps.info a2ps.texi; \
	then \
	  rc=0; \
	  cd .; \
	else \
	  rc=$?; \
	  cd . && \
	  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./a2ps.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
	fi; \
	rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
encoding.texi:113: input error: utf8 "\xCB" does not map to Unicode at /opt/local/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 2074, <FH> line 113.
sheets.texi:385: input error: utf8 "\xFC" does not map to Unicode at /opt/local/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 2074, <FH> line 385.
a2ps.texi:47: warning: redefining Texinfo language command: @LaTeX
a2ps.texi:422: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:420: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:435: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:521: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:2800: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:4122: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:5669: @end example seen before @var closing brace
a2ps.texi:5677: @var missing closing brace
a2ps.texi:5871: @end example seen before @var closing brace
a2ps.texi:5876: @var missing closing brace
a2ps.texi:6219: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
a2ps.texi:6348: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
a2ps.texi:6588: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
make[1]: *** [a2ps.info] Error 1

[kencu (Ken)]

maybe someone out there in some linux distro has come up with patches for this, to support newer texinfo versions.

I tried the ones in archlinux, but they didn't fix the build with our texinfo 7.0.2.0 installation.

for now, all we can do is conflicts_build I think.