Re: Xen Release 4.14.0: Couple of "all warnings being treated as errors" issues and ongoing docs/man issue in make world

[Kevin Buckley <kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 10:54, Kevin Buckley
<kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looking to build 4.14.0 on an LFS 10.0 system, so with GCC 10.2.0.
>
> The "all warnings being treated as errors" I'm sure, will have been
> picked up by now, but the issue with the man pages is something
> I have been seeing for a while now.
>
> ...
> After that point, the build gets as far as
>
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-4.14.0/tools'
> make -C docs install
> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-4.14.0/docs'
> /usr/bin/pod2man --release=4.14.0 --name=xenhypfs -s 1 -c "Xen"
> man/xenhypfs.1.pod man1/xenhypfs.1
> Can't write-open man1/xenhypfs.1: No such file or directory at
> /usr/bin/pod2man line 69.
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:176: man1/xenhypfs.1] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-4.14.0/docs'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:153: install-docs] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-4.14.0'
> make: *** [Makefile:170: world] Error 2
>
> and this is the interesting bit.
>
> Firstly, nothing that the make ins being run from the top-level
> docs directory, looking at
>
> pkg xen:xen-4.14.0> ls docs/
> INDEX            configure.ac       man/
> Makefile         designs/           misc/
> README.colo      features/          parse-support-md*
> README.remus     figs/              process/
> README.source    gen-html-index     specs/
> admin-guide/     glossary.rst       support-matrix-generate*
> conf.py          guest-guide/       xen-headers*
> config.status*   hypervisor-guide/
> configure*       index.rst
>
>
> shows that there isn't a man1 subdir within the source tree?

Please ignore the above issue with the man pages.

This has turned out to be a problem at my end, resulting from a
wrapper around the "install" utility that has been failing silently
for years.

Bugger!