build problems with man pages on linux

[Philip Race]

from Ubuntu 16.04 Linux

$ which pandoc
/usr/bin/pandoc

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 1.16.0.2
Compiled with texmath 0.8.4.1, highlighting-kate 0.6.1.
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css,
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nasm,
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rest,
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     yacc, yaml, zsh
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-phil.

On 6/22/20, 4:49 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Phil,
>
> What version of pandoc are you using?  One from jib, or some other 
> version, e.g from Linux.
>
> -- Jon
>
> On 6/22/20 4:42 PM, Philip Race wrote:
>> I've been working on Windows and Mac issues for the last several 
>> weeks so it has
>> been some time since I even tried to build JDK on my Ubuntu 1604 system.
>> In the interim it seems to have stopped working. I get these errors :
>>
>> LauncherCommon.gmk:223: recipe for target 
>> '/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/support/markdown/BUILD_MAN_PAGES_keytool.md_post.tmp' 
>> failed
>> Creating support/modules_cmds/java.rmi/rmid from 1 file(s)
>> Creating support/modules_cmds/java.rmi/rmiregistry from 1 file(s)
>> LauncherCommon.gmk:223: recipe for target 
>> '/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/support/markdown/BUILD_MAN_PAGES_rmid.md_post.tmp' 
>> failed
>> make/Main.gmk:228: recipe for target 'java.rmi-launchers' failed
>> LauncherCommon.gmk:223: recipe for target 
>> '/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/support/markdown/BUILD_MAN_PAGES_java.md_post.tmp' 
>> failed
>> make/Main.gmk:228: recipe for target 'java.base-launchers' failed
>>
>> Could it be related to this fix
>> changeset:   59638:88ba70c9da28
>> user:        ihse
>> date:        Sat Jun 06 02:04:21 2020 +0200
>> summary:     8246435: Replace Javascript implementation of pandoc 
>> filters with Java
>>
>>
>> In case it is relevant configure always reports ...
>>
>> checking for pandoc... /usr/bin/pandoc
>> checking if the pandoc smart extension needs to be disabled for 
>> markdown... pandoc: unrecognized option `--list-extensions'
>> Try pandoc --help for more information.
>>
>> .. but it is not clear .. that has never been a problem before.
>>
>> -phil
>>