From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LxQVx-0001Wq-7K for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:52:45 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxQVv-0001WZ-NL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:52:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxQVq-0001Vl-VN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:52:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43435 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxQVq-0001Vi-SX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:52:38 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:47213) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LxQVq-0001ul-GZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:52:38 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 24 Apr 2009 14:52:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F0BE534C6A for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:54:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <49F1FDC7.90104@earthlink.net> References: <49F1B95C.2070706@earthlink.net> <49F1FDC7.90104@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:52:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1240599155.26226.14.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Warnings when building svn2137 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:52:43 -0000 On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:58 -0400, BandiPat wrote: > BandiPat wrote: > > Getting these errors when building the package for Zenwalk Linux! > > > > WARNING: zero length file usr/include/grub/lib/datetime.h > > WARNING: usr/man/man1/grub-mkimage.1.gz is an empty gzipped file ... I guess it's files installed in a temporary location, and the messages are from your package manager. > Answering my own email. Seems these files have been empty for quite > some time, so this is nothing new. Don't understand why suddenly one of > my computers started alerting me to them, while another still does not > mention them. Seems though, someone still needs to fill these manuals > up so they'll have some info for the users later. :-) The manuals are generated from the output of the corresponding commands. I believe your version of help2man is not working. I'm going to fix the makefile to prevent generation of empty manuals in that case. > The only real warning at this point is the datetime.h, as it shouldn't > be showing up at all. Zero length datetime.h and datetime.c were left in the tree erroneously. They were supposed to be moved to different locations. I have removed the empty files. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin