Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-6.12.208-2441

[Jim Meyering]

Elbert Pol <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> What version of Perl are you using?
>> Run perl -v
>>
>> Then try this patch:
>>
>> diff --git a/man/help2man b/man/help2man
>> index cbdaf06..911edc9 100755
>> --- a/man/help2man
>> +++ b/man/help2man
>> @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ BEGIN {
>>
>>       unless ($have_gettext)
>>       {
>> -    *gettext = sub { $_[0] };
>> -    *textdomain = sub {};
>> +    eval 'sub gettext { $_[0] }';
>> +    eval 'sub textdomain {}';
>>       }
>>   }
>>
>>
>> ------------------------
>> If that doesn't help, try putting parentheses around
>> each argument to gettext.
>
> [u:\]perl -v
>
> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for os2
>
> Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall
>
> The patch don't help, and also the PArentheses don't fix it.

For now, I suggest you work around it with this:

    cd man && make -t

which will leave you with empty man pages.
If you really want them, generate them on a system
where things work better.

Then, maybe your top-level "make" will succeed.