Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 10/25/2012 03:37 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> -Due to lack of perl on your system, the GNU coreutils build system >> -hasn't been able to create the manual page for >> +Due to lack of perl on your system, the $source build system >> +failed to create the manual page for > > Isn't it "Due to lack on the build system, ..."? > > I.e. coreutils could be built on system A lacking perl, > and then be installed on system B which has perl. The above > text would be misleading in this case.
Good point. I've merged this in: diff --git a/man/dummy-man b/man/dummy-man index 633a5ba..3069376 100755 --- a/man/dummy-man +++ b/man/dummy-man @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ cat >"$output" <<END $progname $bs- a $source program .SH DESCRIPTION .B OOOPS! -Due to lack of perl on your system, the $source build system -failed to create the manual page for +Due to the lack of perl on the build system, we were +unable to create a proper manual page for .B $progname. For concise option descriptions, run .IP
