de translation breaking the build

Hello,

I just checked out a clean copy of the guix repo and am getting an error when trying to build following the instructions in the documentation https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html.I'm seeing several warnings ending in an error when building some of the de translation files, snippet below:

MAKEINFO doc/guix.de.info

doc/contributing.de.texi:2188: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Configuring Git'

doc/contributing.de.texi:3873: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Coding'

doc/contributing.de.texi:3874: @menu reference to nonexistent node `System Administration'

doc/contributing.de.texi:2192: warning: node `Senden einer Patch-Reihe' is next for `Git einrichten' in sectioning but not in menu

doc/contributing.de.texi:2192: warning: node `Einreichen von Patches' is up for `Git einrichten' in sectioning but not in menu

doc/contributing.de.texi:1973: node `Einreichen von Patches' lacks menu item for `Git einrichten' despite being its Up target

doc/contributing.de.texi:2219: warning: node `Git einrichten' is prev for `Senden einer Patch-Reihe' in sectioning but not in menu

doc/contributing.de.texi:3881: warning: node `Systemadministration' is next for `Programmieren' in sectioning but not in menu

Wide character in warn at /gnu/store/yrkpm59y0n77n20aijs0yfha44s69h88-profile/bin/makeinfo line 632.

doc/contributing.de.texi:3881: warning: node `Zu Guix’ Infrastruktur beitragen' is up for `Programmieren' in sectioning but not in menu

Wide character in warn at /gnu/store/yrkpm59y0n77n20aijs0yfha44s69h88-profile/bin/makeinfo line 632.

doc/contributing.de.texi:3860: node `Zu Guix’ Infrastruktur beitragen' lacks menu item for `Programmieren' despite being its Up target

doc/contributing.de.texi:3927: warning: node `Day-to-Day System Administration' is next for `Systemadministration' in sectioning but not in menu

doc/contributing.de.texi:3927: warning: node `Programmieren' is prev for `Systemadministration' in sectioning but not in menu

Wide character in warn at /gnu/store/yrkpm59y0n77n20aijs0yfha44s69h88-profile/bin/makeinfo line 632.

doc/contributing.de.texi:3927: warning: node `Zu Guix’ Infrastruktur beitragen' is up for `Systemadministration' in sectioning but not in menu

Wide character in warn at /gnu/store/yrkpm59y0n77n20aijs0yfha44s69h88-profile/bin/makeinfo line 632.

doc/contributing.de.texi:3860: node `Zu Guix’ Infrastruktur beitragen' lacks menu item for `Systemadministration' despite being its Up target

doc/contributing.de.texi:3981: warning: node `Systemadministration' is prev for `Day-to-Day System Administration' in sectioning but not in menu

make[2]: *** [Makefile:5350: doc/guix.de.info] Error 1

I'm not sure how to further debug this, but wanted to ensure the team is aware of this issue.

Best,

Spencer

Hello Spencer. I suspect your po4a has not been installed from Guix.

Guix needs a recent (maybe 0.70) version of PO4A. If this turns out to

be the reason, then we should put it in the Guix manual.

Regards,

Florian

For what it's worth I checked out a recent commit of guix source (97fe03d536) upgraded all of my packages with "guix upgrade", and dropped to a pure shell to compile guix:

#+begin_src

guix shell -D guix help2man git strace po4a --pure

#+end_src

My po4a is updated:

#+begin_src

jesse in guix

➜ which po4a

/gnu/store/ffsnnknb33mka58z9ch6wl6149zxg2ls-profile/bin/po4a

jesse in guix

➜ po4a --version

po4a version 0.74.

Written by Martin Quinson and Denis Barbier.

Copyright © 2002-2022 Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

This is free software; see source code for copying

conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

#+end_src

I get the same when building:

#+begin_src

./bootstrap

./configure

make

➜ make

GEN nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh

GEN .version

make all-recursive

make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix'

Making all in po/guix

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix/po/guix'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix/po/guix'

Making all in po/packages

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix/po/packages'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix/po/packages'

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix'

MAKEINFO doc/guix.info

MAKEINFO doc/guix.de.info

contributing.de.texi:2188: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Configuring Git'

contributing.de.texi:3873: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Coding'

contributing.de.texi:3874: @menu reference to nonexistent node `System Administration'

make[2]: *** [Makefile:5366: doc/guix.de.info] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix'

make[1]: *** [Makefile:6560: all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jesse/Code/guix'

make: *** [Makefile:4601: all] Error 2

#+begin_src

Actually, scratch that. I didn't have a clean environment. "make clean" didn't seem to clean out the doc artifacts. I did "git clean -dXf " and that seemed to give me a clean environment. So it must have been the po4a version.

"Jesse Millwood" <dev@millwood.earth> writes:

Glad you got your build to work. But I am now more puzzled how it had

broken before. I believe documentation regarding PO4A is not needed.

Instead I tend to close this bug soon. Because:

It turns out PO4A is not a requirement to build Guix. With no PO4A,

guix shell --pure coreutils sed grep gawk tar xz findutils git-minimal make pkg-config guile guile-gnutls guile-avahi guile-gcrypt guile-json@4 guile-lib guile-sqlite3 guile-zlib guile-lzlib guile-zstd guile-ssh guile-git guile-semver autoconf automake gettext-minimal texinfo graphviz-minimal font-ghostscript help2man gcc-toolchain zlib sqlite libgcrypt slirp4netns guix

can do the ./bootstrap ; ./configure ; make. guix.de.texi et al. just

stay empty.

When I then add po4a 0.69 before patch

https://github.com/mquinson/po4a/pull/437,

guix time-machine -q --commit=2c662629804f1bb73fe10b8454d1b9a0bed8b768 -- shell po4a

git clean -dfx

the above also works, because PO4A options are invalid and

guix.de.texi remains empty.

Regards,

Florian

Closing. But please tell if you two know how this happened and we

should document it.

Regards,

Florian