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bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:17:23 +0200

address@hidden wrote:
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>
>> À: "Stefano Lattarini" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden>, "Mike Frysinger"
>> <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden
>> Envoyé: Mercredi 24 Octobre 2012 15:07:18
>> Objet: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at
>> build-from-tarball time
>>
>> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> > Here is the updated patch.  Sorry for the noise,
>> ...
>> > Subject: [PATCH] build: graceful degradation in man pages
>> > generation if perl
>> >  is lacking
>>
>> Does anyone know of a well-known environment/distro in which
>> coreutils is built without perl?  I.e., if virtually no one
>> builds coreutils without perl, then any attempt to coddle those
>> users is wasted complexity.
>>
> Speaking for what I know, this is not an issue with 'linux from
> scratch' based systems.
> - perl is an host requirement (coreutils is build a first time on
> toolchain stage),
> - perl is build on toolchain stage before final coreutils is build.
>
> Any toolchain that really cross-compile often avoid perl as
> notoriously hard to cross-compile.
> Often busybox is used instead of coreutils. Openwrt for example does that.
> Openwrt could optionally build coreutils. The build script use 8.16
> and patch to not build the doc.

Nice.  That's reassuring.
Thanks for the info.





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