Re: sed-4.8.39-23ea on *BSD

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> The NetBSD and FreeBSD logs show it failing like this:
> 
>   CCLD     sed/sed
>   GEN      ../doc/sed.1
> /bin/sh: ../build-aux/help2man: not found
> 
> Obviously, sed's build process just needs to invoke help2man properly,
> e.g., as coreutils does. I'm preparing a fix for that, including a
> help2man update.

Your newer snapshot fixes this; thanks.

> For OpenBSD, the log shows this:
> 
>   AR       sed/libver.a
>   CCLD     sed/sed
>   GEN      doc/sed.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from sed/sed
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:7537: doc/sed.1] Error 137
> 
> I don't see the problem there yet.

Here the problem was caused by different libintl and libiconv installations,
in such a way that $LIBINTL and $LIBICONV were not right. It's such a special
situation, that you don't need to worry about it.

Bruno