Hi Simon, Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> skribis:
> Ah. The Debian packaging intentionally removes the prebuilt manpages > because we want to know that we can rebuild them from source. That is > what is triggering this problem! Oh. That makes perfect sense from a reproducible build perspective. > Thanks for developing that patch. This problem is complex, and I'm not > sure what the best solution really is. Your patch makes the man pages > depend on the binary, and I've had bad experiences with that. If > someone is cross-compile Shepherd (not sure if that's a realistic > situation) then help2man can't run the binary, and in this situation it > would be preferable to fall back on the prebuilt manpages. That doesn't > sound ideal. Right, I had forgotten about cross-compilation (we do rely on it in Guix). So in practice, we have no choice but to build the tarball natively and then (cross-)build from the tarball. > Maybe an uglier solution is to try to run help2man, and if it works, > then fine, but if it doesn't, re-use the prebuilt manpage or fail. Yeah. Or, longer-term, extract command-line metadata from the Guile modules and generate man pages without resorting to ‘help2man’. Ludo’.
