On 11/03/2018 16:19, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 11/03/2018 15:51, Hazel Russman wrote: >> The ninja.build file created by meson for this package contains a help2man >> command with the argument --help-option="--help-all". My help2man command >> will not accept this argument, so the build terminates prematurely. If I >> edit the argument out by hand, the build succeeds. >> >> I don't have a man page for help2man but I have seen online man pages that >> include --help-option as a valid argument. >> >> If I type help2man --help, the option is not shown. >> > > The help2man installed with lsb_release is too old. This has been discuted in > November (about pango, see thread starting at > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2017-November/079667.html). > Not sure what the outcome was... > > Ah and also more recently in the thread starting at > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2018-February/034037.html > > Guess we can state one of the BLFS editors rule: > Editors struggling to stay up to date with upstream never fix little > annoyances... > > Let me try. After half a day spent fixing longindex, I guess I'm up to fixing > this too. >
So I'll remove the instructions for installing help2man in lsb_release, add an external dependency on gnu help2man in pango, and also copy the man page for pango-view, which exists in the build tree, to its location. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
