Thanks to Rob Vermaas for setting up the nixos hydra autobuilder:
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/diffutils-master
Here's a fix for the first problem it exposed:
>From 61fb56b31483ae1c3d483ce099d3468697d37a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:52:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build: make bootstrap ensure that help2man is available
* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Add help2man.
---
bootstrap.conf | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index a0eb0c4..343d660 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ autopoint -
gettext -
git 1.4.4
gzip -
+help2man 1.36
makeinfo -
perl 5.5
rsync -
--
1.7.0.2.451.g960ec
