[bug#70380] [PATCH v2 0/3] Reproducible `make dist' tarball: Avoid override stamp-N warnings.

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Hi again, Jan.

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
> V2 fixes embarrasing typos in 1/3 that should have prevented for this patch to
> build a reproducible tarball at all.  Most probably I only tested a previous
> version where mdate-from-git was a plain shell script.
>
> Janneke Nieuwenhuizen (3):
>   maint: Generate doc/version[-LANG].texi using `mdate-from-git.scm'.
>   Revert "maint: Generate 'doc/version-LANG.texi' reproducibly."
>   Revert "maint: Generate 'doc/version.texi' reproducibly."

It all looked great when reading, but sorry to say, there are errors.  I
run “make dist” from a “make dist”-generated tarball and get (with
LC_ALL=C):

 HELP2MAN doc/guix-style.1
 HELP2MAN doc/guix-system.1
 HELP2MAN doc/guix-time-machine.1
 HELP2MAN doc/guix-weather.1
  HELP2MAN doc/guix.1
  CXX      nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-guix-daemon.o
  CXXLD    guix-daemon
  HELP2MAN doc/guix-daemon.1
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'build-aux/mdate-sh', needed by 
'distdir-am'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/florian/src/guix-1.3.0.57920-346e22'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:6570: distdir] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/florian/src/guix-1.3.0.57920-346e22'
make: *** [Makefile:6679: dist] Error 2


Alarming is also, when I run “make -j6” from a generated tarball, it
fails.  I had not tested this previously but should have.  Arrgh.  The
error message about an error at Makefile:6301 gives me no clue.  “make”
runs almost through, though, except for the above error.  Strange.  Does
it work for you?

Something else less relevant, when running “./bootstrap && ./configure
--localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc” from a generated tarball, it
prints many harmless errors:

Copying file m4/visibility.m4
Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file m4/xsize.m4
Copying file po/guix/Makevars.template
Copying file po/packages/Makevars.template
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: 
/gnu/store/4q6xf35c45c2a7xrw8brdgqn20cgb4bx-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf --force
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
autoreconf: running: 
/gnu/store/4q6xf35c45c2a7xrw8brdgqn20cgb4bx-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoheader --force
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
Makefile.am:922: warning: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but 'po' not in SUBDIRS
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
+ chmod +w build-aux/mdate-sh
+ rm -f build-aux/mdate-sh
+ ln -s mdate-from-git.scm build-aux/mdate-sh
checking for a BSD-compatible install... 
/gnu/store/gfcvx5bbybpvc5dbq32dra04ncrvdhn9-profile/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... 
/gnu/store/gfcvx5bbybpvc5dbq32dra04ncrvdhn9-profile/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes


(“Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden” is German for “No such file or
directory”, so it sometimes gets translated and sometimes not.  Possibly
it is related to your patches, possibly not; I have not tested without
patches.)

Regards,
Florian