[Clfs-dev] Coreutils 8.21

[Martin Ward]

On 03/06/13 20:44, William Harrington wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Martin Ward wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>
> I saw that in the LFS-Support mailing lists some while ago.
>
>> solved that with editing the Makefile and changing the run_help2man 
>> to produce dummy man files
>
> I see quite a bit of things dealing with help2man.
>
> I see a HELP2MAN variable
> Some other help2man in a target
> Not sure which help2man entries to get rid of.
>
@HAVE_PERL_FALSE at run_help2man = $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/man/dummy-man
@HAVE_PERL_TRUE at run_help2man = $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/man/help2man

are the two lines  in Makefile.in, which get set accordingly if you have 
perl, i just changed it for the false one
> I'm going to go ahead and push the multilib wip changes and deal with 
> this later.
>
>>> 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
>>>
>
> I tested it, wasn't the issue.
>>> .
>>>
>> martin
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington
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martin