[Clfs-support] Coreutils-6.12: help2man error

[Joe Ciccone]

Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> CLFS Version: SVN-20080913-x86_64-Pure64
>
> Hi,
> While compiling coreutils-6.12, I ran into the folowing problem:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hvlinux64/tmp/coreutils-6.12/man'
> Updating man page uname.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from uname.td/uname
> make[2]: *** [uname.1] Error 126
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hvlinux64/tmp/coreutils-6.12/man'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hvlinux64/tmp/coreutils-6.12'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I fixed the problem with the following line:
>   touch man/uname.1
> before calling make.
>   
This would only be needed if you applied the uname patch in the temp
tool build. There's no need for this.