On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:51:29 +0100 Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Yes, it was pango, not cairo. I always get those two mixed up. It works fine with a new help2man installed. I was going to suggest adding help2man as a required dependency but you've already beaten me to it. -- Hazel -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
