On 01/05/2018 01:21 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Tim Rühsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 01/05/2018 12:45 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>> I'm trying to build libidn to use with Wget. As far as I know Wget >>> does not require man pages. Wget will build just fine without them. >>> >>> Building libidn-1.33 results in: >>> >>> make[4]: Entering directory '/home/scripts/libidn-1.33/doc' >>> /bin/bash /home/scripts/libidn-1.33/build-aux/missing help2man \ >>> --name="Internationalized Domain Names command line tool" \ >>> --output=idn.1 ../src/idn >>> /home/scripts/libidn-1.33/build-aux/missing: line 81: help2man: >>> command not found >>> 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: >>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/> >>> Makefile:2209: recipe for target 'idn.1' failed >>> >>> Perhaps it would be a good idea to to avoid docs when tools are not present. >> >> Thanks, but that seems to be a bad idea. As the text says >> "You should only need it if you modified a dependency of a man page." >> >> So if you are 'developer', you just install all dependencies. > > That's not your decision to make. It is my decision.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was talking about facts, not decisions. Of course you decide what you want. But as a developer you should install all dependencies - or nobody can/will help you. >> Just continuing is bad for all (package) maintainers as they might fell >> over half-baken packages/installations much later (e.g. when users >> complain). > > Provide a configure option. I am happy to use it. > >> If you are 'user' (unpack tarball, ./configure, make, make install), you >> shouldn't need help2man since you don't start editing files that require >> a (developer) rebuild. That's one of the ideas of a tarball. > > I'd love to, but I don't have the luxury of using the latest Autotools. A build from the tarball doesn't need the latest autotools. Regards, Tim
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