Re: sharutils 4.7: compress-dummy.1 is empty

[Bruce Korb]

Hola Santiago,

See what happens when you don't look at something but every few years?
I must have mistyped my find/grep command...

I'm also remembering part of the problem with this stuff:

> configure:6980: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure:6981: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG
> autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> chmod: cannot access `COPYING': No such file or directory
> chmod: cannot access `INSTALL': No such file or directory
> chmod: cannot access `doc/texinfo.tex': No such file or directory

The autotools were improved enough that I cannot use autoupdate
and I haven't found the time and energy to re-auto-tool the thing.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Santiago Vila<address@hidden> wrote:
>> I "find" that it doesn't exist at all.
>
> Well, try this:

Well, I have to have a successful rebuild to get  it.
and it's going to take real work.:(  *sigh*.

>> Why would you even want a man page for something so vacuous?
>
> I could ask the same thing myself :-), but I'm just a packager. My job
> here is basically to make a .deb package from the files generated by
> the above "make install".
>
> Note: sharutils 4.6.3 had a non-empty compress-dummy.1, that's why I
> ask about it.
>
> Hope this helps.

Yes and no.  :-D  Thanks - Bruce