[GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 17 02:41:05 EDT 2018


Hello,

If I am working on updating the documentation, it must be time for me to bang my head against some command line hiccup! <looks at wrist> Yup! Right on time.

Following my handy-dandy git cheat sheet, I’ve pulled from github.com/gnucash/gnucash-docs <http://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-docs> and pushed to github.com/sunfish62/gnucash-docs <http://github.com/sunfish62/gnucash-docs>. I then entered all my edits to ch_basics.xml and saved. 

Next, I went to the wiki (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Validate_Your_Changes <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Validate_Your_Changes>) and found the instructions to “make check” the guide. So, in Terminal, I cd to my build directory for the guide (/Volumes/Media/Development/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/build/guide) and issue “make clean”

This is what I get:

cd .. && /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  am--refresh
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .. && /bin/sh /Volumes/Media/Development/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/missing aclocal-1.15 
 cd .. && /bin/sh /Volumes/Media/Development/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/missing automake-1.15 --gnu
configure.ac:6: error: required file './config.guess' not found
configure.ac:6:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.guess'
configure.ac:6: error: required file './config.sub' not found
configure.ac:6:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.sub'
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/C/Makefile.am:42:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/C/Makefile.am:42:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/de/Makefile.am:40:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/de/Makefile.am:40:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/it/Makefile.am:11:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/it/Makefile.am:11:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/ja/Makefile.am:37:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/ja/Makefile.am:37:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/pt/Makefile.am:43:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/pt/Makefile.am:43:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/ru/Makefile.am:37:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
guide/ru/Makefile.am:37:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/C/Makefile.am:33:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/C/Makefile.am:33:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/de/Makefile.am:20:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/de/Makefile.am:20:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/it/Makefile.am:11:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/it/Makefile.am:11:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:54: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:54: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/pt/Makefile.am:28:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
xmldocs.make:85: warning: shell ls ${srcdir}/${figdir}/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
xmldocs.make:85: (probably a GNU make extension)
help/pt/Makefile.am:28:   'xmldocs.make' included from here
make[1]: *** [../Makefile.in] Error 1
make: *** [../../aclocal.m4] Error 2

I’m not sure why there’s a “missing” in the initial command, and I don’t know where config.guess is supposed to be—and I won’t even try to guess.

I would love to have some guidance.

David T.


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