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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 19:20:27 +0100
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On 06/07/2021 17:32, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 7/6/2021 7:59 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 05/07/2021 19:04, Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> * texinfo-6.8-1
>>> * texinfo-tex-6.8-1
>>> * info-6.8-1
>>>
>>> Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to 
>>> produce output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, 
>>> html, info, pdf, xml, etc.).
>>>
>>> This is an update to the latest upstream release.  See
>>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Thanks for this update.
>>
>> This seems to break building the cygwin documentation:
>>
>>  > [...]
>>> docbook2x-texi --xinclude --info --utf8trans-map=charmap 
>>> ../../../../src/winsup/doc/cygwin-api.xml --string-param 
>>> output-file=cygwin-api
>>> could not find ParserDetails.ini in 
>>> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32/XML/SAX
>>> could not open -: No such file or directory
>>> /usr/bin/db2x_texixml: program in pipeline exited with an error
>>> make: *** [Makefile:729: cygwin-api.info] Error 1
>>
>> Poking around a bit, under the hood this is invoking makeinfo, and it 
>> seems that can't read from a pipeline anymore:
>>
>>> $ echo foo | makeinfo
>>> could not open -: No such file or directory
>>
>> Downgrading to 6.7, I can build again, and:
>>
>>> $ echo foo | makeinfo
>>> -: warning: document without nodes
>>
>> Is this an intentional upstream change?
> 
> No.
> 
> I've applied the upstream fix and am waiting for scallywag to build and 
> deploy texinfo-6.8-2.  (It seems to be taking forever.)

It seems that something went wrong when processing the build complete 
notification, which I need to look into...

> My local test indicates that this fixes the problem, but I'd appreciate 
> it if you would confirm that before I "untest" the new release.

Yup, that fixes it.  Thanks!

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