On 14-08-07 01:33 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: > > Op 6 aug. 2014, om 22:38 heeft Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> > het volgende geschreven: > >> commit 841ec528ec04e64bd09ff10f8d9ad2d6e3aac05d ("coreutils: update >> to upstream version 9.21") added a patch which bypassed the check >> for perl and hence defaults to using the dummy man page for all >> of the coreutils manpages. This results in all manpages looking like: >> >> NAME >> chmod - a GNU coreutils 8.22 program >> >> DESCRIPTION >> OOOPS! Due to the lack of perl on the build system, we were unable to >> create a proper manual page for chmod. >> >> It is unclear why the test was disabled, but since it clearly >> causes the manpages to be useless, we need to drop this patch. > > That all might be true, but DEPENDS doesn't list 'perl' or 'perl-native', so > this commit is wrong.
Wrong might be overstated. The patch unconditionally disables a _check_ for perl. So if perl is there, it is used; if it is absent, it is not. Given that there really is no excuse for shipping broken manpages, one could argue that a DEPENDS on perl-native is sensible, and if that is what it takes to get the broken patch dropped, I'll add one. P. -- > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core