On 11/03/2018 17:57, Hazel Russman wrote: > 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. >
It's not required: if meson does not find it, it is not used. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
