GNU bug report logs - #25367
gentoo: sys-apps/sed-4.3 - chmod: cannot access 'doc/sed.1-t': No such file or directory

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-sed <at> gnu.org
Subject: gentoo: sys-apps/sed-4.3 - chmod: cannot access 'doc/sed.1-t': No
 such file or directory
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:41:48 -0500

Hello,

Pointed by Martin Mokrejš :
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604760

The symptom is (copied from the bug report):
==
./build-aux/help2man \
    --name 'stream editor for filtering and transforming text'  \
    -p sed --include ./doc/sed.x                        \
    -o doc/sed.1-t sed/sed                                 \
  && chmod a-w doc/sed.1-t                                  \
  && mv doc/sed.1-t doc/sed.1
apiversion=9999
chmod: cannot access 'doc/sed.1-t': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Makefile:5776: doc/sed.1] Error 1
==

While I'm not familiar with Gentoo or RAP,
it might be related to some tweaking they do to the build process?

Investigating...

-assaf

Message #8 received at 25367 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 25367 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25367: gentoo: sys-apps/sed-4.3 - chmod: cannot access
 'doc/sed.1-t': No such file or directory
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:47:32 -0500

Update:

This is likely due to broken gentoo build system, not a sed bug.
more details here:
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604760#c14

It boils down to 'perl' being a no-op shell script on the affected system, thus 'help2man' (a perl script) doesn't generate the man page but still returns exit code 0.

I'll leave this open until the solution is confirmed on the gentoo website.

-assaf

Message #11 received at 25367 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 25367 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25367: gentoo: sys-apps/sed-4.3 - chmod: cannot access
 'doc/sed.1-t': No such file or directory
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:06:16 -0500

tag 25367 notabug
close 25367
thanks


resolved in Gentoo by fixing their build script:
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604760#c19

Message #16 received at 25367-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Benda Xu <heroxbd <at> gentoo.org>
To: 25367-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Bug identified in Gentoo bootstrap script
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:04:57 +0900

Hi, we can close this.

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604760

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