Re: Local install of GNUN does not detect errors (plus typo in mailfail)

[Ineiev]

Hello, Dora!

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 06:56:09PM +0100, Dora Scilipoti wrote:
> 
> I've installed GNUN 1.1 (released Sep 10, 2021) in my computer. I
> followed the instructions as per README and INSTALL. All went well,
> including the symlinks for both config.mk and GNUmakefile.
> 
> To try the validation feature, I intentionally introduced an error in a
> po file (I omitted a closing tag </a> in line 34). This is what I get:
> 
> ~/GNU-Local/www/server/gnun$ make ../../gnu/gnu.es.html
> /usr/local/libexec/gnun/validate-html-notify --dry-run bug-gnun@gnu.org
> ../../gnu/gnu.html
> /usr/local/libexec/gnun/mailfail: line 56:
> /usr/local/bin/gnun-validate-html: No such file or directory
> make: *** [GNUmakefile:1000: ../../gnu/po/gnu.proto] Error 127
> 
> ISTR that in old versions of GNUN that command used to exit with a
> detailed report of the error. Is this feature not available anymore, or
> am I not following the correct procedure?

It looks like the validation scripts haven't been installed---the first
guess is, the configure script didn't see xmllint; what did it output?

> (There is typo in line 55 of the mailfail file: 'it's' should be 'its'.)

Thank you, the fix will go to the next release of GNUN.

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