reopen 21023 tags 21023 -notabug thanks On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/31/15, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> tags 21023 notabug >> thanks >> >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> --no-dereference appears in 'diff --help' and 'info diffutils', but >>> not in 'man diff'. >> >> Thanks for the report, but that is unlikely to be a problem with this >> upstream diffutils package, since the man page (diff.1) is >> automatically generated from the output of diff --help, and the build >> machinery to do that has been in place for over a decade. I would >> suspect whatever installed your diff man pages or the configuration of >> your "man(1)" program -- maybe it is searching in the wrong place. > > Thanks for the reply. > I downloaded diffutils-3.3.tar.xz and in diffutils-3.3/man/diff.1 does > not appear the --no-dereference option. I don't know whether it is > re-generated at compile or install time... but at the moment that file > does not have the said option.
Oh, I see that you are right! So this *is* a bug. Reopening and untagging. It looks like I managed to include a stale diff.1 (not including the then-new --no-dereference description) in the distribution tarball. That makes me think there is or was a missing dependency. I'll investigate and report back here.
