Hi all,

When I run `make` in a guix directory, it usually (always?) ends with this warning:

```
  HELP2MAN doc/guix-daemon.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from guix-daemon
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
WARNING: 'help2man' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified a dependency of a man page.
         You may want to install the GNU Help2man package:
         <https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
make[2]: [Makefile:8334: doc/guix-daemon.1] Error 127 (ignored)
```

Is this normal? Is there something I need to do to make the message disappear?

Running Guix system. It happens on all branches on all commits, on several machines. (But maybe I don't notice it when the warning is not there.) It has been happening for months, maybe years.

For clarity: help2man is installed. The warning seems harmless, but harmless warnings can drown out important warnings.

The warning is like one third of all the output of make, when ran in a freshly built guix directory; so a significant amount.

Just now I realized guix is built on the CI, and the message does not appear there, instead, it has several lines like
```
 HELP2MAN doc/guix-archive.1
```
which seem to be more useful.

Cheers,

Hugo



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