On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 11:14 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > On FreeBSD 14.0 and NetBSD 10.0, a build fails after sources have been > modified: > > $ touch src/cmp.c > $ ./configure > $ make V=1 > ... > base=`expr cmp.1 : '\(.*\).1'` && test -x > ../src/$base && (echo '[NAME]' > && sed 's@/\* *@@; s/-/\\-/;s/^GNU //; > q' ../src/$base.c) | PATH="../src:$PATH" ./help2man > -i - -i ./$base.x -S 'diffutils 2024-05-21' $base > cmp.1-t && mv > cmp.1-t cmp.1 > /bin/sh: ./help2man: not found > *** Error code 127 > > Stop. > make[1]: stopped in /home/bruno/diffutils-2024-07-21/man > *** Error code 1 > > > The reason is that on FreeBSD, perl is at /usr/local/bin/perl, not > /usr/bin/perl. > Likewise, on NetBSD, perl is at /usr/pkg/bin/perl, not /usr/bin/perl. > And likewise, on Guix, the only binary in /usr/bin is /usr/bin/env. > > The attached patch fixes it. "use warnings" instead of option '-w' is > recommended per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12554179/ ; it avoids > the use of /usr/bin/env's option '-S' which is unportable (not specified > by POSIX).
Thanks. I have pushed that.
