Re: Bug#850232: installation-guide: FTBFS randomly (ERROR: xref linking to appendix-gpl has no generated link text.)
Santiago Vila, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 01:11:41 +0100, wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:55:38AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Santiago Vila, on Sat 07 Jan 2017 23:37:03 +0100, wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 11:20:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >
> > > > Could you also post build logs which are successful?
> > >
> > > Ok, all the build logs I have, same place as before:
> > >
> > > https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/installation-guide/
> >
> > Ok, thanks!
> >
> > What was in common in failed builds was that it started creating xml
> > files from gpl.xml (depending in which order the filesystem laid
> > files). I could then reproduce the issue easily by starting with it.
> > What happens is that for 'da' there is no translation, and in that
> > case msgattrib does *not* create the file, and thus po2xml just fails
> > without an explicit error message. I fixed it by passing --force-po to
> > msgattrib to always create a file, even if without any translation.
>
> Reminds me of this bug:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841096#47
>
> Was debian/rules and the various Makefiles following Policy 4.6 before
> the fix you applied? (i.e. errors must be trapped so that the build stops)
? The error is trapped, yes. As I said po2xml just doesn't print any
useful error message.
Samuel
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