I get the following error with V8.5.17-36-g3b75b6560:
$ ninja clean && ninja
[...]
FAILED: man/lib/quasiquotations.tex man/lib/summaries.d/quasiquotations.tex /tmp/swipl-devel/build.release/man/lib/quasiquotations.tex /tmp/swipl-devel/build.release/man/lib/summaries.d/quasiquotations.tex
cd /tmp/swipl-devel/build.release/man && /tmp/swipl-devel/build.release/src/swipl -f none --no-packs -x /tmp/swipl-devel/build.release/man/pldoc2tex -- --source=/tmp/swipl-devel/man --out=lib/quasiquotations.tex --summaries "library(quasi_quotations)"
ERROR: /tmp/swipl-devel/build.release/home/library/quasi_quotations.pl:266:
ERROR: Arguments are not sufficiently instantiated
Warning: Halting with status 1 due to 1 errors and 0 warnings
[2360/2529] Generating tests/test_certs/generated
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
strangely enough, if I do ninja
after that it works, very strange.