-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit,
Replies inline. "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hint: Charles Wilson has a ready to go help2man package at his testing >site, this is also what I'm using, he seeks for a maintainer, it just >needs to be rebuild with --prefix=/usr instead of /usr/local. I remember you told me this before, and when I looked then, he had an older version posted. See more below. >And why are there difficulties to build it? Strange, it is just a >perl script, I guess the only thing the configure and make does is to >alter the path to the perl binary in the script? For the older versions (until and including 1.29) you are right. Beginning with 1.3x, a new component was added to add NLS. This created two problems: 1) The Perl module Locale::gettext is required. This does build by me, but until last week we hadn't dealt with distributing Perl modules, and I wasn't interested in being the first. 2) The locale component (an .so) doesn't build: $ make perl help2man.PL Extracting help2man (with variable substitutions) gcc -o hacklocaledir.so -fPIC -shared hacklocaledir.c cc1: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position independent) hacklocaledir.c: In function `__open': hacklocaledir.c:44: error: `RTLD_NEXT' undeclared (first use in this function) hacklocaledir.c:44: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once hacklocaledir.c:44: error: for each function it appears in.) hacklocaledir.c: At top level: hacklocaledir.c:113: warning: weak declaration of `open' not supported make: *** [hacklocaledir.so] Error 1 So for a while I dropped this whole thing, but then I got stuck with packaging gtypist. So after looking into it again, I found out that NLS can be disabled with a configure flag, making it work just like before (with, of course, the newest version of the help2man script itself). Based on this, I will be ITP'ing this shortly. Thanks for your comments. Yaakov Selkowitz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.7.96 iD8DBQE/+9E0piWmPGlmQSMRAmFHAKC+1jtSHD9nbzJAwvnxuOe/dClHogCaA8+k kr0+Sc2uo/aFNXpCbNRnfIc= =gf9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- __________________________________________________________________ Thank you for using Netscape.
