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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> It invokes /missing instead of $top_srcdir/build-aux/missing.
>
>>> I added =E2=80=98help2man=E2=80=99, but it didn=E2=80=99t help.
>
>> Could you check the configure log for clues?
>
>> Also, can you check the makefiles to see how it=E2=80=99s supposed to bu=
ild the
>> man pages?
>
> It just needed Perl.

OK.

>>>> Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.
>
>> Too much time?  But it succeeds?
>
> Sorry, I was thinking about a different command.  Yours fails with
> =E2=80=9Cstring contains #\nul character.=E2=80=9D  May I stick to the li=
st of files
> instead of using =E2=80=98find-files=E2=80=99?

Hmm yes, but it looks really long, and thus hard to maintain.  Can=E2=80=99=
t it
be reduced?

> Now, 20 of 25 tests failed.  Tests are written in Ksh, not Bash, so I=E2=
=80=99ll
> try to package it first.

Forgive my ignorance, but is Ksh somehow compatible with tcsh (tcsh is
already packaged)?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.