On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:55:28PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Bob, > > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:33:12PM CET: > > While building libtool HEAD today, I encountered this problem: > > > > PATH=.:$PATH; export PATH; /bin/bash > > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/libltdl /config/missing --run > > help2man --output=/home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/ libtool.1 > > --help-option=--help-all libtool > > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/libltdl/config/missing: line 54: > > help2man: c ommand not found > > WARNING: `help2man' is missing on your system. You should only need it > > if > > you modified a dependency of a manual page. You may need the > > `Help2man' package in order for those modifications to take > > effect. You can get `Help2man' from any GNU archive site.
and Eric Blake's suggestion: ./configure --disable-nls > FWIW, as workaround it should also be possible to > : > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/libtool.1 > : > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/libtoolize.1 > make > > then you will see the warning again but it won't be an error any more. > > Since a tarball will ship with the man pages this is what will happen > with them, in case you update any of their prerequisites. Is there similar friendly workaround for autoconf? (--disable-nls isn't a configure option there) (just touch doc/autoconf.1 or better?) Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
