Anyone have any idea why the Stellarium man page won't generate during a compile? Here's the error:

I'm building via SlackBuilds and I have looked in the temp folder where this builds and from what I can tell is that the file Stellarium.pod.cmake is converted to Stellarium.pod and that's as far as it goes. It won't make the Stellarium.1 file. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the SlackBuilds script itself.

I just tried to compile Stellarium-0.11.0 manually and got the same results on the man page generation. I am able to run Stellarium from the source directory using some info on Stellarium's website and it does work. I would prefer to have it installed normally however. Unfortunately the man page issue is preventing that. Since this issue is showing up in the 0.10.6 sourcecode tree of Stellarium as well, it must mean there is something wrong with my Slackware system. Also is there anyway to bypass the man page generation?

you might be best off pulling Stelliarum from bzr

or installing the CURRENT "stellarium-0.13.1.tar.gz"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stel...ources/0.13.1/


11.0 is VERY OLD
it is from July of 2011

for your bzr build copy or the targz
cd into the folder and run this
as to the man pages in the 3 year out of date version ?
no idea , it is 3 years out of date

My Slackware system is that old as well, 13.37. I don't know if I would be able to build the later versions without going to Slackware 14.0 or 14.1. Right now I'm just sticking with 13.37 as it's stable. Also this laptop I am using is even older. It's a Dell Latitude D400 from 2002. Clearly though there is something wrong with my system's ability to make man pages.

are you sure that all the build dependancies are installed ?
and are the correct version ?
-- mind you this is an old page --
http://stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Build_Dependencies

a "gettext" or "doxygen " error would stop a build in the man/docs part

Those are installed. Doxygen-1.7.3 gettext-0.18.1.1 gettext-tools-0.18.1.1. According to the CmakeLists.txt file under /stellarium-0.11.0/doc there is a utility called pod2man that is used to turn stellarium.pod.cmake into stellarium.pod. That utility is present on my system. If there is some other utility that is supposed to turn stellarium.pod into stellarium.1, I don't know. I don't even know what project pod2man is a part of.

I think I have found the problem. pod2man is a part of Perl. Apparently my Perl install somehow got corrupted. I uninstalled Perl and reinstalled it and the man page generation now works when I do a manual compile. I'll try the SlackBuild again.

Edit:

I tried the SlackBuild again and it worked this time. The package is built.

glad to see it builds

i normally use the development version, seeing as 5 of my planet and moon maps are included

in 13 and 13.1 and the bzr dev