On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:03 AM Dagobert Michelsen <d...@opencsw.org> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Am 20.09.2021 um 04:37 schrieb Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net>: > > We're preparing for a new release. > > See NEWS below. Please give it a spin and report any success or failure. > > > > Thanks to Karl for doing so much of the work. > > > > There have been 11 commits by 6 people in the 8 weeks since 1.16.4. > > See the NEWS below for a brief summary. > > I have an early build failure on help2man on Solaris 10 x86: > > gmake: Entering directory > '/home/dam/mgar/pkg/automake/trunk/work/solaris10-i386/build-isa-pentium_pro-version-1.16/automake-1.16' > GEN bin/automake > GEN bin/aclocal > GEN bin/aclocal-1.16 > GEN bin/automake-1.16 > GEN t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash > GEN t/ax/cc-no-c-o > GEN runtest > GEN doc/aclocal.1 > GEN doc/automake.1 > GEN lib/Automake/Config.pm > GEN doc/aclocal-1.16.1 > GEN doc/automake-1.16.1 > help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.16 > Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr > gmake: *** [Makefile:3694: doc/automake-1.16.1] Error 255
Thanks for the speedy feedback! Would you please see if reverting to the version of doc/help2man from 1.16.4 makes it work? Also, building with V=1 will cause "make" to show more about commands it is running. That may help, too.