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  • From: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] make error: pod2man: unable to format list_config.pod
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 11:07:49 +0100

On 1/1/19 7:28 PM, address@concealed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install sympa in Debian jessie system but I got a make error
> concerning pod2man. Executable pod2man exists on
> the system. Don't know how to solve. Any ideas?
>
> Sympa version: 6.2.36
> System: Debian jessie + backports
> Perl:  revision 5 version 20 subversion 2
> Configure options:
>
> ./configure \
>     --prefix=/usr/local/sympa \
>     --without-smrshdir \
>     --with-lockdir=/var/lock/subsys \
>     --with-piddir=/run/sympa \
>     --with-initdir=/etc/init.d \
>     --with-aliases_file=/etc/postfix/sympa_aliases
>
> Error with pod2man:
>
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/sympa-6.2.36/default'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/sympa-6.2.36/default'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/sympa-6.2.36/default'
> Making install in doc
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/sympa-6.2.36/doc'
>   GEN    list_config.5
> *pod2man: unable to format list_config.pod*
> Makefile:580: recipe for target 'list_config.5' failed
> make[1]: *** [list_config.5] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/sympa-6.2.36/doc'
> Makefile:364: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
> --
> Cordialement,
>
> R.J. Baart
>

Hello,

I can not reproduce this error (neither on Jessie nor on Debian testing) - do
you use system pod2man?

Otherwise you could try to remove list_config from the Makefile.

Regards
Racke

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