Re: Cross compiling coreutils and manpages

[Christer Solskogen]

On 07.11.2014 15:56, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 07 Nov 2014 13:07, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > On 07.11.2014 04:41, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On 06 Nov 2014 22:36, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > > > Cross compiling coreutils *and* generate the manpages at the same time
> > > > seems to be a hard thing to do. Is it possible to create them in any
> > > > other way?
> > >
> > > unfortunately, current wisdom is this is working as intended
> > >
> > > for Gentoo, i maintain a prebuilt tarball of the man pages you can unpack over
> > > top the existing source release and get sanity again.
> > > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/coreutils-8.23-man.tar.xz
> >
> > Thanks, but mine still fails :/
>
> did you unpack it inside the dir, or over top ?  i.e. you want to do:
>         tar xf coreutils-8.23.tar.xz
>         tar xf coreutils-8.23-man.tar.xz

Yeap.

> you do *not* want to do:
>         tar xf coreutils-8.23.tar.xz
>         cd coreutils-8.23
>         tar xf coreutils-8.23-man.tar.xz

I know, I did that first :-)


> if that still fails, after you unpack both, try doing:
>         set -- man/*.x
>         touch ${@/%x/1}

Still the same :(
I build by using a seperate build directory, but that shouldn't matter. 
Should it?