[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#737264: /usr/share/man/man7/systemd.directives.7.gz: systemd.directives(7) is empty

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:55:41PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 03.02.2014 12:42, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > Am 02.02.2014 23:23, schrieb Sam Morris:
> > 
> >> Hm, I think we disagree on the desired results. :) I don't mean that the
> >> man page is absolutely empty... I'm referring to the actaul list of each
> >> directive along with the man page in which it is documented. Sorry for
> >> being unclear.
> >>
> >> I'm attaching the man page from version 204-5 so you can see what I
> >> mean.
> > 
> > Ok, I understand now what you mean.
> > 
> > Not quite sure yet. Seems to be a problem of using out-of-tree builds.
> > At least I can *not* reproduce the issue with an in-tree build.
> > 
> > When doing the oot build I'm getting a lot of those warnings:
> > 
> > 
> > make[2]: Circular man/systemd.directives.xml <- man/bootup.xml
> > dependency dropped.
> > make[2]: Circular man/systemd.directives.xml <- man/daemon.xml
> > dependency dropped.
> > make[2]: Circular man/systemd.directives.xml <- man/halt.xml dependency
> > dropped.
> > ...
> > 
I've seen this too, but only on Debian.

> Zbyszek, in case you want to reproduce the issue:
> - git clone the systemd repo
> - cleanup any pregenerated files: git -xdf,
> - ./autogen.sh
> - use out-of-tree build:
>  mkdir build && cd build && ../configure && make
I do out-of-tree build most of the time, so and in general everything
works well. I just run those instruction on Fedora and the issue is
not there (automake-1.13.4-5.fc20.noarch, make-3.82-19.fc20.x86_64,
autoconf-2.69-14.fc20.noarch). It would be good to look where exactly
this circular dependency comes from.

Zbyszek