Can't build 0.9.0 from source tarball

[lgbaldoni]

See attached log.

[jpellegrini]

It also happens with the sources from git (pulled today, last commit was a5516eb9a15539d2bf5e3b498d26f3f80c8fc906), and without the -j8 option to make.

[jpellegrini]

Also -- Debian has 0.9.0 packaged. It may be worth looking at their patches!

[lgbaldoni]

@jpellegrini most of them don't apply and judging by the contents, debian seems to be using a modified source tarball.

[lgbaldoni]

@jpellegrini I see now debian is using the release tarball and not the source one.
Hence the report.

[jpellegrini]

Hello; I have tried again compiling a git checkout, and it fails, not for a different reason.

There is no configure in the repository, so I ran

./autogen.sh
./configure
make

autogen.sh and configure succeed (return zero), but make fails:

$ make                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/doc'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'index.html', needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/doc'
make: *** [Makefile:544: all-recursive] Error 1
$

So, I tried removing doc/Makefile and inits place I put this file:

all:
        echo "nope"

and tried again. But make failed again, this time in a target that I believe I can't skip:

$ make
Making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/doc'
echo "nope"
nope
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/doc'
Making all in m4
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/m4'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/m4'
Making all in tools
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/tools'
Making all in libgcroots
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/libgcroots'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'all'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jeronimo/pkg/scheme/sigscheme/libgcroots'
make: *** [Makefile:544: all-recursive] Error 1

I have tried applying the pending pull requests, but didn't change anything.

[kou]

You need to add the --enable-maintainer-mode option to configure.

[kou]

Or you can use released tarball https://github.com/uim/sigscheme/releases/download/0.9.0/sigscheme-0.9.0.tar.gz without --enable-maintainer-mode.

[lgbaldoni]

This is how it fails now.

[kou]

Could you show how did you build to reproduce the case?

[lgbaldoni]

Same problem with 0.9.1, see build log

[kou]

Why did you specify --enable-maintainer-mode?

[lgbaldoni]

Why did you specify --enable-maintainer-mode?

I followed the advice you gave in #7 (comment).

Otherwise I end up again with

Making all in doc
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'index.html', needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:545: all-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XYSVP8 (%build)

See build log.

[kou]

OK.
You don't need to use --enable-maintainer-mode with the released archive: https://github.com/uim/sigscheme/releases/download/0.9.1/sigscheme-0.9.1.tar.gz
You need to use --enable-maintainer-mode with source checked out by git.

Did you use the released archive?
(You also don't need to run autogen.sh with the released archive.)

[lgbaldoni]

Did you use the released archive?

No, I used the source tarball https://github.com/uim/sigscheme/archive/refs/tags/0.9.1.tar.gz.

Does it mean it's non functional?

[kou]

The source table https://github.com/uim/sigscheme/archive/refs/tags/0.9.1.tar.gz is same as cloning by git.
It's not prepared for release. You need to prepare manually by running autogen.sh and so on.

You should use https://github.com/uim/sigscheme/releases/download/0.9.1/sigscheme-0.9.1.tar.gz not ../refs/tags/....

[lgbaldoni]

Thing is, I did run autogen.sh. What else do I need to do?

[kou]

Why do you want to use https://github.com/uim/sigscheme/archive/refs/tags/0.9.1.tar.gz ?

[lgbaldoni]

I've just compared the contents of the two: I could not find binaries of any sort in the release tarball, so I can use it to build a rpm for distro inclusion.
It's not always the case, hence why I usually build from source.