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Re: question about failed build of X related packages using imake



On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:01:25AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I've seen several instances of build failure : 
> 
> $ grep 'make.*No rule to make target.*man.*needed by .*_man' *.log
> login.app.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Login.app.man', needed by `Login.app._man'.  Stop.
> lwm.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `lwm.man', needed by `lwm._man'.  Stop.
> netmaze.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `netmaze.man', needed by `netmaze._man'.  Stop.
> nitpic.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `nitpic.man', needed by `nitpic._man'.  Stop.
> wmdate.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `wmdate.man', needed by `wmdate._man'.  Stop.
> wmmixer.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `wmmixer.man', needed by `wmmixer._man'.  Stop.
> x2x.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `x2x.man', needed by `x2x._man'.  Stop.
> xeji.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `xeji.man', needed by `xeji._man'.  Stop.
> xlife.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `collect.man', needed by `collect._man'.  Stop.
> xnecview.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `xnecview.man', needed by `xnecview._man'.  Stop.
> xsysinfo.log:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `xsysinfo.man', needed by `xsysinfo._man'.  Stop.
> 
> Does anyone know why this is caused ?

I'd tell you on IRC, but the whole channel appears to have me /ignored.
:)

Imake changed around XFree86 4.0 to support (mandate, really) manpage
preprocessing.

Problems like the above can be fixed by either:

1) Writing a manpage for the app; or
2) Changing the app not to use imake; or
3) Editing the apps' Imakefile to use
     ComplexProgramTargetNoMan() instead of ComplexProgramTarget()
     and/or
     ComplexCPlusPlusProgramTargetNoMan() instead of ComplexCPlusPlusProgramTarget()

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