can't el-get install since 0.16 broke node links in flycheck.texi

[ronaldevers]

Hey, you appear to have accidentally broken the docs in release 0.16, specifically in the release commit 53ccbf6. el-get tries to run makeinfo flycheck.info in the doc folder but make info complains about the node next/prev/up pointers. I tried to fix it myself to send a pull request but failed because I couldn't figure out what you want pointing to what. Here is the error: (the warning was already there in older versions and can be ignored I think)

[ronald@thing] ~/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc [master] # makeinfo flycheck.texi
flycheck.texi:5: warning: unrecognized encoding name `UTF-8'.
/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc//flycheck.texi:3299: Next field of node `master' not pointed to (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc//flycheck.texi:3303: This node (Credits) has the bad Prev.
/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc//flycheck.texi:3183: Prev field of node `0.16' not pointed to.
/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc//flycheck.texi:3037: This node (0.15) has the bad Next.
/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc//flycheck.texi:3037: Next field of node `0.15' not pointed to (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc//flycheck.texi:3299: This node (master) has the bad Prev.
makeinfo: Removing output file `/Users/ronald/.emacs.d/el-get/flycheck/doc/flycheck.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.

Hope this is an easy fix that you can make, thanks in advance.

In the meantime the el-get recipe can be patched not to build docs like so:

(:name flycheck
   :build nil
   :info nil)

[ronaldevers]

nice, thanks 👍

[swsnr]

@ronaldevers Please note, that I generally build the manual with Texinfo 5, while you are using Texinfo 4, and I don't support El-get.

As such, your setup might break any time without prior notice, and I probably won't bother to fix it. Notably, I'll not try to support Texinfo 4, and I won't notify El-get maintainers of changes to Flycheck which might break their recipes.

GNU ELPA (from Marmalade or MELPA) is the only supported way to install Flycheck, so please be aware, that you are using El-get at your own risk.

[ronaldevers]

Got it :)

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Sebastian Wiesner <notifications@github.com

wrote:

@ronaldevers https://github.com/ronaldevers Please note, that I
generally build the manual with Texinfo 5, while you are using Texinfo 4,
and I don't support El-get.

As such, your setup might break any time without prior notice, and I
probably won't bother to fix it. Notably, I'll not try to support Texinfo
4, and I won't notify El-get maintainers of changes to Flycheck which might
break their recipes.

GNU ELPA (from Marmalade or MELPA) is the only supported way to install
Flycheck, so please be aware, that you are using El-get at your own risk
.

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[swsnr]

@ronaldevers Great. No offence meant, just wanted to make sure you're aware of this :) Thank you for reporting this issue :)