On 10/26/2012 10:34 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+** Build-related + + The generated man/*.1 man pages are no longer distributed. Building + without perl, you would create stub man pages, and besides would be + unable to run a significant percentage of the tests (so don't do that!). + Thus, while perl is not an official prerequisite (build and "make check" + will still succeed), any resulting man pages would be inferior.
We should probably mention that this fixes a parallel build failure when building modified sources, like a patched distro package for example. thanks, Pádraig.
