Re: Relating multiple index entries to one table item

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 05:49:54PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> 
> Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I have nuked the relate_index_entries_to_table_entries transformation
> > which made this association.  According to the changelog, I introduced
> > this code in November 2020.  This may remove some copiable anchors from
> > HTML manuals, for @item in @table.  We'll have to decide if and when
> > such should still be output.
> 
> I wanted to give implementing that an attempt, but while trying to
> configure and build the texinfo trunk, I get:

I cannot reproduce it with make or make check (in an out of tree build),
but with make html.  I will try to fix it.  As a side note make pdf does
not work if texi2pdf is not installed, I don't know if it should be
fixed to use in-source texi2pdf.

So, what exactly triggered that error?

> 
>   make[4]: Entering directory '/home/arsen/gnu/texinfo/_build/doc/tp_api'
>   restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
>   rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
>   if (/usr/bin/perl -I ../../../tp/ ../../../tp/texi2any.pl --version) 
> >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
>     for f in texi2any_internals.info texi2any_internals.info-[0-9] 
> texi2any_internals.info-[0-9][0-9] texi2any_internals.i[0-9] 
> texi2any_internals.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
>       if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
>     done; \
>   else :; fi && \
>   if /usr/bin/perl -I ../../../tp/ ../../../tp/texi2any.pl -c 
> INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING=0  -I ../../../doc/tp_api \
>    -o texi2any_internals.info `test -f 'texi2any_internals.texi' || echo 
> '../../../doc/tp_api/'`texi2any_internals.texi; \
>   then \
>     rc=0; \
>   else \
>     rc=$?; \
>     $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./texi2any_internals.info" | sed 
> 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
>   fi; \
>   rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
>   Can't locate Texinfo/ModulePath.pm in @INC (you may need to install the 
> Texinfo::ModulePath module) (@INC contains: ../../../tp ../../../tp/ 
> /etc/perl /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.36/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
> /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.36 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.36/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/5.36 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.34) at ../../../tp/texi2any.pl line 78.
>   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../../tp/texi2any.pl line 107.
>   make[4]: *** [Makefile:1449: texi2any_internals.info] Error 2
>   make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/arsen/gnu/texinfo/_build/doc/tp_api'
>   make[3]: *** [Makefile:1414: all] Error 2
> 
> Though, this can be worked around with ./pre-inst-env make.  It seems
> like the $(builddir)/tp directory isn't added to the include path (this
> is an out-of-tree build, which is the configuration I normally opt for,
> since it allows multiple configurations at one time, as well as easier
> cleanup).
> 
> -- 
> Arsen Arsenović