Bug 429799

Summary:	kdoctools build if using zsh, antigen and zsh-autosuggestions
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kdoctools	Reporter:	Srevin Saju <srevinsaju>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Documentation Editorial Team <kde-doc-english>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	kdelibs-bugs, luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.76.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Srevin Saju 2020-11-29 10:26:53 UTC

SUMMARY
kdoctools fails to build on systems who use 
(i) zsh, 
(ii) antigen and 
(iii) zsh-autosuggestions
due to a regression in the DocBookXSL finding algorithm used by cmake

Possibly related to #373896

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install antigen, make sure you have zsh-autosuggestions on PATH
2. run `kdesrc-build kdoctools`
3. Look at cmake.log and build.log

OBSERVED RESULT
The build fails, as it tries to search for the folder manpages in ~/.antigen
which is where its not supposed to look for DocBookXSL. Possibility is that
there is a VERSION file in ~/.antigen/bundles/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/ which makes cmake think that it _is_ the DocBookXSL directory; The build subsequently fails

EXPECTED RESULT
The build should complete successfully


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux / 5.20.3
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
kdoctools @ 8609659ba44e49af8b53f6d4bd6de06c002ee477

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Luigi Toscano 2020-11-29 18:08:53 UTC

The FindDocBookXSL.cmake code tries first to look into several paths for lib/lib.xsl, and then it tries to find it VERSION is another set of paths which are build by items of CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH and  share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-* , so it looks to me unlikely that a random VERSION file may affect the process.

This is a very specific issue on a very specific platform, and it may require people with the proper environment knowledge to debug it.

As a starter, please attach the compilation logs and the exact error messages.

Comment 2 Srevin Saju 2020-11-30 08:53:47 UTC



I have attached the build.log and cmake.log for your reference.
It seems like CMAKE searches my $PATH for DocBookXSL; my $PATH includes 
~/.antigen/.../zsh-autosuggestions which might be a pointer.

I am not sure why it selects ~/.antigen/.../zsh-autosuggestions. I can clean 
build it, if I pop ~/.antigen/.../zsh-autosuggestions from $PATH, but it might imply that some checks or the path to DocBookXSL is to be refined perhaps

https://people.sugarlabs.org/~srevinsaju/dl/cmake-2020-11-30.log
https://people.sugarlabs.org/~srevinsaju/dl/build-2020-11-30.log

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Comment 4 Srevin Saju 2020-12-15 04:52:10 UTC

Reported