On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:44:25PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it because of the new man program, or the build order that some > of the man pages are not being formatted properly? I don't really > understand what is going on, but for example, try to 'man diff' on > a newly built system. > > It has to do with a help2man program not being installed. What is > weird is that the man page is correctly formatted in the diffutils > source tree, and installed all screwed up. > > I wonder how many other man pages are screwed up? > > I do know that on a system build around the new year (2006), this > did not happen and the diff man page was correctly installed. >
Nice catch! The absence of help2man is even in my log, either I didn't notice it, or I thought I didn't need it because we weren't messing with the man page. In fact, the i18n patch is doing this - it updates src/diff.c, but in man/Makefile after configure has run I can see the following: S = $(top_srcdir)/src diff.1: $S/diff.c and similarly for the other three man-pages. In other words, the docs are supposed to be regenerated to match any change to the source (assuming I'm reading correctly). I don't think I've ever seen this sort of dependency before, but I suppose it's possible that another patched or sedded package might do something similar. What I find strange is that I can't get the help2man error message to reappear when I walk through this and log the install, although the resulting page shows the problem. But that's probably just a local oddity. Looks as if it can be fixed by 'touch man/*.1' after applying the patch (pedantically, "works for me" if I rebuild as a user and install somewhere else). But, my lfs system is old (25th March) and I don't have time or sufficient x86 cpu cycles to actually do a fresh lfs build at the moment. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
