On 21/05/2018 00:26, Christopher Gregory wrote: >> 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 >> -- >> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev >> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> > > 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. >
Well, only upstream can answer... There is no direct translation from autotools to meson/ninja, so it may happen that something is lost when moving from the former to the latter. That's all I can tell, sorry. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
