Re: help2man missing

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Patrick Welche wrote on Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:20:50AM CET:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:55:28PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:33:12PM CET:
> > > While building libtool HEAD today, I encountered this problem:

> > > /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

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

I have a fix for 'missing' to be finished this weekend, see this thread:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2008-11/msg00045.html>.

Cheers,
Ralf