The more I look at and think about help2man, the more it looks like something we just shouldn't need/use.
In summary, it runs a binary and captures its --help output. This rules it out from being useful in most cross compiling scenarios, i.e. all target packages. In the -native/-cross cases, we don't really care about man pages. I'm therefore thinking we should really just drop the dependency and symlink help2man to /bin/false. The missing script in autotools should then just silently touch the man page files instead of regenerating them. I tried to figure out which recipes actually use help2man: $ grep HELP2MAN * -r --exclude=Makefile.in 2> /dev/null | grep -v missing and against a core-image-sato this gave: libtool libtasn1 gettext automake autoconf flex bison m4 which isn't that many recipes to go and beat up manually if necessary. It certainly doesn't warrant a global include in autotools.bbclass IMO. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
