Re: coreutils 8.30 "bootstap"

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/02/19 23:43, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 1/16/19 8:33 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=f114495e3e
> 
> Outch:
> 
>   WARNING: Did not generate or find default 'false.1' man page.
>   WARNING: Creating a stub man page instead.
> 
> That approach fails for 'false.1' because 'false' is the only
> program which also exits non-Zero with --help.
> 
> @Padraig:
> unless we're adding a workaround for 'false' (I can't think of),
> I suggest to revert this commit for the imminent v8.31.
> Do you have another idea?

We could workaround it, though adding cross_compiling=yes
to the configure invocation seems like the right solution,
and I verified it worked here for a dist tarball
(the original distributed man pages were used).

So I'll revert this commit.

thanks,
Pádraig