Re: 5.0.2-test-2 is available

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:36:01 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 On Dec 2,  4:08pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } I'm getting with make on Cygwin
> } 
> } sh: colcrt: command not found
> 
> Out of curiosity, do you have yodl installed on Cygwin?  If not, how are
> you even getting this far in the build process?  zshbuiltins.1 should
> not exist, so the dependency for help.txt can't be satisfied, and perl
> should never even be run ...?

At some point you get empty files called zshbuiltins.1 etc. created.

> If you do have yodl and are not using the doc tarball, then our previous
> position has been that developers are responsible for making sure they have
> all the tools to complete the build from scratch on whatever platform.

That doesn't really work with colcrt (or col) --- it's one of a possible
of set of tools varying by what the local manual system provides.
There's a variability here there isn't with Yodl and I don't feel like
fixing things up for every variant on the planet.

However, using the Doc bundle would probably be a good enough fix in
practice.  I should probably check that doesn't produce idiosyncracices
with helpfiles on Cygwin.

Of course, using Yodl throughout would be the right fix, but I haven't
heard anybody thinking about that.

pws