Re: gnu hello: 'make distcheck' fails on FreeBSD

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trying the latest "Gnu Hello" on FreeBSD, "make distcheck" fails:
> ===
> <...>
> <snip... after hello is compiled and linked successfully ...>
> <...>
>
> depbase=`echo src/hello.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`; cc
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/home/gordon/hello/hello-2.9.27-f95ba-dirty/_inst/share/locale\"
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -Ilib -I../lib -Isrc -I../src    -g -O2 -MT
> src/hello.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/hello.o ../src/hello.c && mv
> -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
> cc  -g -O2   -o hello src/hello.o  ./lib/libhello.a
> /bin/sh /usr/home/gordon/hello/hello-2.9.27-f95ba-dirty/build-aux/missing
> help2man --include=../man/hello.x ./hello -o ../hello.1
> help2man: can't unlink ../hello.1 (Permission denied)

Hi Assaf,
Thank you for that report.
I've fixed it with the attached patch.

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