Bug#969142: frobby: FTBFS with doxygen 1.8.19

[Torrance, Douglas]

On 8/31/20 3:35 AM, Paolo Greppi wrote:
> Il 30/08/20 13:57, Torrance, Douglas ha scritto:
>> After adding graphviz to Build-Depends, I get a build error a bit
>> further down:
>>
>>> cd bin/develDoc/latexPdf; for f in `ls *.eps`; do epstopdf $f; done # Cygwin fix
>>> /bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to bin/develDoc/latexPdf
>>> ls: cannot access '*.eps': No such file or directory
>>> cd bin/develDoc/latexPdf/; make refman.pdf; mv refman.pdf ../develDoc.pdf
>>> /bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to bin/develDoc/latexPdf/
>>> make[3]: Entering directory '/root/frobby'
>>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'refman.pdf'.  Stop.
>>> make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/frobby'
>>> mv: cannot stat 'refman.pdf': No such file or directory
>>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:279: develDocPdf] Error 1
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/frobby'
>>> dh_auto_build: error: make -j1 "INSTALL=install --strip-program=true" all library doc develDoc MODE=shared library=libfrobby.so.0.0.0 returned exit code 2
>>> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:13: override_dh_auto_build] Error 25
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/frobby'
>>> make: *** [debian/rules:10: binary] Error 2
>>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
>>> debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
>>> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui failed
>>
>> I'll investigate further and try and figure out what's going on.
>>
>> Doug
> 
> Thanks for the info, this is very interesting.
> 
> It looks like doxygen fails to create the bin/develDoc/latexPdf/ dir in the preceding line of the Makefile:
> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/frobby/-/blob/master/Makefile#L280
> 
> I have manually tried this command from the develDocHtml target:
> cat doc/doxygen.conf doc/doxHtml|doxygen -
> 
> and it apparently succeeds, but produces empty documentation in bin/develDoc/html
> 
> These commands work:
> 
>    rm -rf Doxyfile
>    cat doc/doxygen.conf doc/doxHtml > Doxyfile
>    doxygen
> 
> while "doxygen -" is broken due to a known doxygen 1.8.19 bug, see:
> https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/7951#issuecomment-671370005
> 
> This is serious so I'll now release 1.8.19 to unstable and simultaneously file a RC bug in the BTS to block it.
> 
> According to upstream, this has been fixed in the doxygen version 1.8.20 which they already released.
> I plan to package it ASAP so I suggest you wait for that and not patch your Makefile.

Sounds good -- thanks for the information!

Doug