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bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:08:31 +0200 |
Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 03:37 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> -Due to lack of perl on your system, the GNU coreutils build system
>> -hasn't been able to create the manual page for
>> +Due to lack of perl on your system, the $source build system
>> +failed to create the manual page for
>
> Isn't it "Due to lack on the build system, ..."?
>
> I.e. coreutils could be built on system A lacking perl,
> and then be installed on system B which has perl. The above
> text would be misleading in this case.
Good point.
I've merged this in:
diff --git a/man/dummy-man b/man/dummy-man
index 633a5ba..3069376 100755
--- a/man/dummy-man
+++ b/man/dummy-man
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ cat >"$output" <<END
$progname $bs- a $source program
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B OOOPS!
-Due to lack of perl on your system, the $source build system
-failed to create the manual page for
+Due to the lack of perl on the build system, we were
+unable to create a proper manual page for
.B $progname.
For concise option descriptions, run
.IP
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/24
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/24
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/25
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Bernhard Voelker, 2012/10/25
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time,
Jim Meyering <=
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Bernhard Voelker, 2012/10/25
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/26
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/26
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Pádraig Brady, 2012/10/26
- bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/26