Re: coreutils 8.30 "bootstap"

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 3/4/19 10:11 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

Have a nice day,
Berny