In my WIP tree (with a bunch of patches not in main) `make makeman` fails, where sh makeman did not, and does not provide usable diagnostics: $ make makeman building src.conf.5 man page from files in /home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd/tools/build/options ignoring duplicate option OPT_INIT_ALL .makeman.lua:482: Child 42697 failed, buf: makeman.lua:195: make exited unsuccessfully *** Error code 1 Stop. make[1]: stopped making "makeman" in /home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped making "makeman" in /home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd $ ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... The `.`s from individual option make invocations are all emitted after returning to the shell. With a few hacks (to report the make invocation and avoid cleaning up the tmp dir) I can find the failing case: .makeman.lua:482: Child 61647 failed, buf: makeman.lua:195: make [.MAKE.MODE=normal showconfig SRC_ENV_CONF=/tmp/makeman.6081/src-WITHOUT_ALL_WITH_LOADER_VERIEXEC.conf] exited unsuccessfully $ make showconfig SRC_ENV_CONF=/tmp/makeman.6081/src-WITHOUT_ALL_WITH_VERIEXEC.conf make[1]: /home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd/share/mk/src.opts.mk:526: VERIEXEC requires BEARSSL in /home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd/Makefile.inc1:123 in make[1] in directory "/home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd" make[1]: stopped making "showconfig" in /home/emaste/src/freebsd-src/wipbsd *** Error code 1 Stop.
In share/mk/src.opts.mk in my tree I have: .if ${MK_BEARSSL} == "no" && \ (${MK_LOADER_VERIEXEC} == "yes" || ${MK_VERIEXEC} == "yes") .error VERIEXEC requires BEARSSL .endif Arguably this should be handled in a better way, but makeman.lua ought to be more resilient.
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ea27ec183d0ff26e1273202841a02041b6d93955 commit ea27ec183d0ff26e1273202841a02041b6d93955 Author: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2026-04-26 19:30:17 +0000 Commit: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-04-27 19:21:12 +0000 makeman.lua: Downgrade `make showconfig` error to warning The sh-based makeman silently ignored errors from `make showconfig`. Ignore errors also from makeman.lua (but emit a warning). We may want to revisit this in the future, but want makeman.lua to behave identically for now. PR: 294822 Reviewed by: kevans Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56663 tools/build/options/makeman.lua | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
A commit in branch stable/15 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=0b759788833e00906b80e0edb0e172115d4240cb commit 0b759788833e00906b80e0edb0e172115d4240cb Author: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2026-04-26 19:30:17 +0000 Commit: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-04-30 16:27:55 +0000 makeman.lua: Downgrade `make showconfig` error to warning The sh-based makeman silently ignored errors from `make showconfig`. Ignore errors also from makeman.lua (but emit a warning). We may want to revisit this in the future, but want makeman.lua to behave identically for now. PR: 294822 Reviewed by: kevans Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56663 (cherry picked from commit ea27ec183d0ff26e1273202841a02041b6d93955) tools/build/options/makeman.lua | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)