Re: coreutils 8.30 "bootstap"

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 08/03/2018 10:09 AM, Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> * Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>:
> 
> | > manuals comes to play, help2info tries to execute the compiled
> | > binaries to get the man pages from --help output, but the compiled
> | > binaries are not executable on the host target, since its not
> | > multiarch.
> | > 
> | > Generating the main pages will fail, and build terminates.
> | > 
> | > How could I solve this problem and let coreutils compile in this
> | > environment?
> 
> | I think you should take the distribution tarball [1] rather than
> | './bootstrap'ing from the 'coreutils.git' repo.
> 
> Well, its the distribution tarball, so in this case we have to
> investigate why it tries to regenerate the man pages?

yes.

> Maybe due configuring and building outside of srcdir?

Building in a separate builddir shouldn't be a problem.
Do you have a reproducer?

Have a nice day,
Berny