From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a2ps: manpages fail to build
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:02:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqlmp0fg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4bu85uv.fsf@karetnikov.org> (Nikita Karetnikov's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:57:44 +0400")
Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:
>> There’s a bug in its build system, but most likely it wants ‘help2man’
>> (as native input.)
>
> Could you expand on the bug part?
It invokes /missing instead of $top_srcdir/build-aux/missing.
> I added ‘help2man’, but it didn’t help.
Could you check the configure log for clues?
Also, can you check the makefiles to see how it’s supposed to build the
man pages?
>> Rather use (substitute* (find-files "." ".*") ...) if that works.
>
> It takes too much time, or I’m doing something wrong.
Too much time? But it succeeds?
(It should be just as fast as running ‘find’ in that directory.)
HTH,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 20:46 a2ps: manpages fail to build Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-09 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-09 21:57 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-09 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-10-10 11:09 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-10 12:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
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