On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 12:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie 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-Nov > > > ember/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-Februar > > > y/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. > > Perhaps just downloading http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/help > 2man > to /usr/bin would be sufficient. It is just a stand alone 20KB perl > script. > > As root: > > wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/help2man -O > /usr/bin/help2man > > The only real issue is how to present it. A separate page in Chapter > 13 > seems appropriate. > > -- Bruce
If you're going to take it that far (adding a separate page), why don't you just use the official help2man? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
