Re: man-pages-6.11 released

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On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 02:37:44PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:50:17AM -0700, brian.inglis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> > 
> > Looks like the tarball pages are missing the version preceding release -1!
> 
> Hmmmm!  I can reproduce that.  I'll check why this is happening.
> 
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man$ ls
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man$ wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-6.11.tar.gz >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
> 	0
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man$ tar xf man-pages-6.11.tar.gz 
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man$ rm man-pages-6.11.tar.gz 
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man$ cd man-pages-6.11/
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man/man-pages-6.11$ man ./man2/membarrier.2 | tail -n1
> 	Linux man‐pages (unreleased)       2024‐07‐23                     membarrier(2)
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man/man-pages-6.11$ make -R -j24 install DESTDIR=i 2>/dev/null | wc -l
> 	5740
> 	alx@devuan:~/Downloads/man/man-pages-6.11$ man ./i/usr/local/share/man/man2/membarrier.2 | tail -n1
> 	Linux man‐pages                    2024‐07‐23                     membarrier(2)
> 
> There are some error messages in the make(1) call, so it might be
> related to that.
> 
> I should also make sure that there are tests for this in the build
> system, but due to a bug in the packaging of the tools I use in my
> distro, I can't at the moment.  For now, I'll try to just fix the bug.

Bisecting the bug shows it's fault of this commit:

0d69e51cd4b8 (2025-02-10; "share/mk/: Use ?= assignments for user-facing variables")

I suspect there's some variable that we use that exists in a normal
environment?  I'll check.


Cheers,
Alex

> 
> Thanks for the report!
> 
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex
> 
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