On February 22, 2018 2:45:39 PM CST, "Armin K." <[email protected]> wrote: >On 22.2.2018. 21:25, Thanos Baloukas wrote: >> On 02/22/2018 10:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Thanos Baloukas wrote: >>>> If the help2man perl script by lsb_release-1.4 is installed in >/usr/bin >>>> according the book instructions, the build fails with >>>> >>>> [125/127] Generating pango-view.1 with a custom command. >>>> FAILED: pango-view/pango-view.1 >>>> /usr/bin/help2man --no-info --section=1 >'--help-option="--help-all"' >>>> '--name="Pango text viewer"' --output=pango-view/pango-view.1 >>>> /tmp/pango-1.40.14/build/pango-view/pango-view >>>> Unknown option: help-option >>>> `help2man' generates a man page out of `--help' and `--version' >output. >>>> >>>> Usage: help2man [OPTION]... EXECUTABLE >>>> >>>> -n, --name=STRING use `STRING' as the description for the > >>>> NAME paragraph >>>> -s, --section=SECTION use `SECTION' as the section for the >man >>>> page >>>> -i, --include=FILE include material from `FILE' >>>> -I, --opt-include=FILE include material from `FILE' if it >exists >>>> -o, --output=FILE send output to `FILE' >>>> -N, --no-info suppress pointer to Texinfo manual >>>> --alt_version_key=KEY use specified flag instead of --version >>>> --help print this help, then exit >>>> --version print version number, then exit >>>> >>>> EXECUTABLE should accept `--help' and `--version' options. >>>> >>>> The lsb_release-1.4 help2man does not accept the --help-option. >With >>>> sed '/--help-option=/d' -i pango-view/meson.build >>>> it builds ok. >>> >>> help2man is a perl script. The one in lsb-release is quite old. I >>> don't think it is worth adding a whole page for installing it, but >we >>> could add an additional download to lsb-release with a newer >version. >>> >>> http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/help2man >>> >> Having a new help2man version in the book sounds good. I'm not sure >> if the lsb-release page is the most appropriate place to place the >> download link. >> > >Agreed. And since nothing requires it, I'd suggest dropping it entirely > >from lsb_release and replacing the reference in packages that can use >it >(e.g. pango) to point to https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/ >-- >http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev >FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Packages that need it should include a sufficiently recent copy anyway. --DJ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
