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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-08-01 14:35:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-08-01 14:36:11 +0200 |
| commit | 475a8e8623210ef1a65b9398a539cf47c8759119 (patch) | |
| tree | 9048512d9793c8e28310347fece46416a4214f52 | |
| parent | 4a2750a06f9865aadfe75a465e03672c16bbe1a4 (diff) | |
Changes.old: 6.04: Document the addition of `make check`man-pages-6.05
This caused trouble to the Debian packaging, since it runs `make check`
if the package supports it, and since we have a few pages that trigger
errors there, the packaging failed to work for 6.04.
Document the workaround.
Reported-by: Marcos Fouces <marcos@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Changes.old | 36 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 3fb22fe86..3dfc4bc94 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -55872,6 +55872,42 @@ Global changes (e.g., man3typedir='/usr/share/man/man3'). - Support installing compressed pages (Z='.gz'). - Support installing link pages as symlinks (LINK_PAGES='symlink'). + - Add make(1) 'check' target. This has been split from 'lint'. + 'lint' will check the source code, and 'check' will check the + rendered pages (as a user will read them). There are currently + several pages that fail this `make check`, and distributors that + depend on this can workaround it by touching a few files: + + $ make check -k -j >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; + $ make check -k 2>/dev/null; + GREP .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch + TROFF .tmp/man/man2/fanotify_init.2.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man2/s390_sthyi.2.cat.set + GREP .tmp/man/man3/mallopt.3.check-catman.touch + TROFF .tmp/man/man3/unlocked_stdio.3.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man4/console_codes.4.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man4/lirc.4.cat.set + GREP .tmp/man/man4/smartpqi.4.check-catman.touch + GREP .tmp/man/man4/veth.4.check-catman.touch + TROFF .tmp/man/man5/proc.5.cat.set + GREP .tmp/man/man5/slabinfo.5.check-catman.touch + TROFF .tmp/man/man5/tzfile.5.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man7/address_families.7.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man7/ascii.7.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man7/bpf-helpers.7.cat.set + GREP .tmp/man/man7/keyrings.7.check-catman.touch + GREP .tmp/man/man7/uri.7.check-catman.touch + TROFF .tmp/man/man8/tzselect.8.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man8/zdump.8.cat.set + TROFF .tmp/man/man8/zic.8.cat.set + + After touching the previous files, `make check` will succeed: + + $ make check -k 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $2}' | xargs touch; + $ make check -j >/dev/null; + $ echo $? + 0 Changes to individual pages |