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Re: shishi-0.0.12: "missing" script fails with help2man
From: |
Adrian Bunk |
Subject: |
Re: shishi-0.0.12: "missing" script fails with help2man |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:46:03 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:08:40AM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Simon> Adrian Bunk <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm not sure whether the following build error is a bug in shishi or in
> >> the "missing" script:
> Simon> ...
> >> /bin/sh /aux/adrian/build/shishi-0.0.12/missing --run help2man \
> >> --name="kerberos 5 database interface" \
> >> --info-page=shishi \
> >> --output=shisa.1 ../src/shisa
> >> Unknown option: i
> Simon> ...
> >> shishi-0.0.12 uses the "missing" script from automake 1.8.
> >>
> >> GNU help2man 1.24 is installed.
>
> Simon> Hello, and thanks for the report. I'm using help2man 1.33, and most
> Simon> likely the cause for the error is that 1.24 is too old.
>
> Simon> But the consequence of the problem should, IMHO, be
> Simon> mitigated by automake/missing -- the man page is after
> Simon> all included in the shishi tar.gz.
>
> If the problem occurred during a user build of shishi (by user
> build I mean that no distributed files has been altered) then
> the Makefile probably needs to be fixed. Indeed, since the man
> page is distributed, Makefile rules should be arranged so that
> it is not rebuilt during a user build. This kind of error is
> usually caught by `make distcheck' and is discussed in the FAQ.
>
> If the problem occurred during after some modification of the
> distributed files, then obviously the above paragraph does not
> apply. It's just unclear to me which case we are in.
>...
We are in the first case, all I did was a
tar xzf shishi-0.0.12.tar.gz
cd shishi-0.0.12
./configure
make
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz
cu
Adrian
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