> On 20/05/2018 12:14, Christopher Gregory wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When following the blfs 8.2 systemd stable book, the build of Pango
>> fails
>> with the following error:
>>
>> [127/127] 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
>> /opt/sources/pango-1.40.14/build/pango-view/pango-view
>> Unknown option: help-option
>>
>> I noticed that there was still the old ./configure option in the tar
>> ball,
>> so I used that and the build completed without any problems.
>>
>
> You need a more recent bersion of help2man than what is in lsb-release.
> What
> we do in the development version of the book is:
> - do not install help2man from lsb-release (or r.
> Then help2man is not used in pango. And the man page for "pango-view" is
> installed manually:
> install -vm 644 ../pango-view/pango-view.1.in
> /usr/share/man/man1/pango-view.1
>
> Pierre
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Hello Pierre,

Thanks for that, but could you please explain why it only happened when
meason was used?  Using the old ./configure there were no errors and
pango-view has been correctly installed.

To me that is rather odd.

Regards,

Christopher.

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