[Clfs-dev] Coreutils 8.21

[Martin Ward]

On 03/06/13 19:23, William Harrington wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Well I made sure Coreutils 8.21 didn't have issues before I applied it 
> to the dev book, and now I'm testing gcc 4.8.1 with multilib to push 
> it to git, and now coreutils in temp system wants to rebuild all of 
> the man-pages. 

I had that in x86_64 pure64 with gcc-4.8.0

solved that with editing the Makefile and changing the run_help2man to 
produce dummy man files
> I didn't have this before when doing powerpc or x86_64 pure64. Anyone 
> else having issues? My host is using texinfo 5.1, and I"ve had to 
> apply a patch for binutils 2.23.2 for it already. Not sure if that is 
> causing the problem, but I don't really feel like touching all of the 
> man pages just so it won't build them all.
don't think it is
>
>   GEN    man/chroot.1
> help2man: can't get '--help' info from man/chroot.td/chroot
> make[2]: *** [man/chroot.1] Error 126
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/coreutils-8.21'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/coreutils-8.21'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Apparently it attempts to run src/chroot which is no binary executable 
> cause of the cross compile, so the man page can't be created.
> This happens with every man page. So do we have to touch all of the 
> man pages now so they don't get rebuilt?
>
> When replying, make sure you aren't doing x86_64 to x86 or any other 
> target where the binaries can be ran in the temp system.
> I am talking about cross compiles between arches where the host can't 
> run the target binaries being installed into /tools.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington
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martin