Re: autoconf git and no host help2man

2020-03-16 Thread Ross Burton
On 14/03/2020 16:05, Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/14/20 2:36 AM, Ross Burton wrote: On 14/03/2020 01:03, Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote: Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man? Yes, it should. Can someone else verify that this is working? I said that it

Re: autoconf git and no host help2man

2020-03-14 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/14/20 2:36 AM, Ross Burton wrote: On 14/03/2020 01:03, Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote: Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man? Yes, it should. Can someone else verify that this is working? I said that it *should* work, not that it *does* work. I

Re: autoconf git and no host help2man

2020-03-14 Thread Ross Burton
On 14/03/2020 01:03, Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote: Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man? Yes, it should. Can someone else verify that this is working? For me a tarball built from git master refuses to build without help2man installed. Ross

Re: autoconf git and no host help2man

2020-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote: Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man? Yes, it should.

autoconf git and no host help2man

2020-03-13 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man? I built a tarball of git master with 'make dist' but when I attempt to build that on another system it fails if help2man isn't present. Shouldn't this be a requirement only for the git builds? 2.69 doesn't have this behaviour. Cheer