Re: coreutils installation error

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 1/14/22 16:52, Billa Surendra wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan, 2022, 7:27 pm Pádraig Brady, <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
>> On 13/01/2022 11:35, Billa Surendra wrote:
>>> I am trying to install coreutils-9.0 version on my RISC-V Linux machine
>> but
>>> it's giving an error. Can anyone please help me to solve this particular
>>> error?.
>>>
>>> Error:
>>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/cp.td/cp
>>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
>>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:18446: man/cp.1] Error 127
>>> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/package_building/coreutils-9.0'
>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:13461: all-recursive] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/package_building/coreutils-9.0'
>>> make: *** [Makefile:7383: all] Error 2
>>
>> error 127 is command not found.
>> Was there an error in building cp itself?
>> I.e. is src/cp present, or does `make src/cp` give an error?
>> If not then it may be an issue with make dependency processing.
>> Are you using gnu make? If not can you reproduce with gmake?
>>
> I am using gnumake only
>

Do you cross-compile? Does running 'src/cp --help' on that build host work?
More context, please.

Have a nice day,
Berny