Re: coreutils installation error

[Pádraig Brady]

On 13/01/2022 11:35, Billa Surendra wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> 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?

thanks,
Pádraig