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Subject: Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:02:59 +0200
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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> There=E2=80=99s a bug in its build system, but most likely it wants =E2=
=80=98help2man=E2=80=99
>> (as native input.)
>
> Could you expand on the bug part?

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 build=
 the
man pages?

>> Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.
>
> It takes too much time, or I=E2=80=99m doing something wrong.

Too much time?  But it succeeds?

(It should be just as fast as running =E2=80=98find=E2=80=99 in that direct=
ory.)

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.