build problems with man pages on linux

[Philip Race]

I thought that if the version of pandoc is not suitable, the build skips 
man pages.
No idea if pandoc 2.3.1 is available for Ubuntu 16.04.

-phil.

On 6/22/20, 5:10 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> You need something like pandoc 2.3.1
>
> -- Jon
>
> On 6/22/20 4:58 PM, Philip Race wrote:
>> 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.
>> Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages:
>>     abc, actionscript, ada, agda, apache, asn1, asp, awk, bash, 
>> bibtex, boo, c,
>>     changelog, clojure, cmake, coffee, coldfusion, commonlisp, cpp, 
>> cs, css,
>>     curry, d, diff, djangotemplate, dockerfile, dot, doxygen, 
>> doxygenlua, dtd,
>>     eiffel, email, erlang, fasm, fortran, fsharp, gcc, glsl, 
>> gnuassembler, go,
>>     haskell, haxe, html, idris, ini, isocpp, java, javadoc, 
>> javascript, json,
>>     jsp, julia, kotlin, latex, lex, lilypond, literatecurry, 
>> literatehaskell,
>>     llvm, lua, m4, makefile, mandoc, markdown, mathematica, matlab, 
>> maxima,
>>     mediawiki, metafont, mips, modelines, modula2, modula3, 
>> monobasic, nasm,
>>     noweb, objectivec, objectivecpp, ocaml, octave, opencl, pascal, 
>> perl, php,
>>     pike, postscript, prolog, pure, python, r, relaxng, 
>> relaxngcompact, rest,
>>     rhtml, roff, ruby, rust, scala, scheme, sci, sed, sgml, sql, 
>> sqlmysql,
>>     sqlpostgresql, tcl, tcsh, texinfo, verilog, vhdl, xml, xorg, 
>> xslt, xul,
>>     yacc, yaml, zsh
>> Default user data directory: /home/prrace/.pandoc
>> Copyright (C) 2006-2015 John MacFarlane
>> Web:  http://pandoc.org
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>> There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness
>> for a particular purpose.
>>
>> -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
>>>>