On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:48:26AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 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.undeterministic build results mean it's broken -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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