On 11/03/2018 18:50, Armin K. wrote: > 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? >
help2man is optional for all packages which can use it. Does it justify inclusion in the book? Note that DJ uses help2man for make-ca. We could install this one too... Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
