Re: help2man missing

[Patrick Welche]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:55:28PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:33:12PM CET:
> > While building libtool HEAD today, I encountered this problem:
> >
> > PATH=.:$PATH; export PATH; /bin/bash  
> > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/libltdl /config/missing --run  
> > help2man --output=/home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/ libtool.1  
> > --help-option=--help-all libtool
> > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/libltdl/config/missing: line 54:  
> > help2man: c ommand not found
> > WARNING: `help2man' is missing on your system.  You should only need it 
> > if
> >          you modified a dependency of a manual page.  You may need the
> >          `Help2man' package in order for those modifications to take
> >          effect.  You can get `Help2man' from any GNU archive site.

and Eric Blake's suggestion: ./configure --disable-nls

> FWIW, as workaround it should also be possible to
>   : > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/libtool.1
>   : > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/libtoolize.1
>   make
> 
> then you will see the warning again but it won't be an error any more.
> 
> Since a tarball will ship with the man pages this is what will happen
> with them, in case you update any of their prerequisites.

Is there similar friendly workaround for autoconf? (--disable-nls isn't
a configure option there) (just touch doc/autoconf.1 or better?)

Cheers,

Patrick