Re: coreutils-6.9-375-3e3f8 is lacking a ginstall.x

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tried to build coreutils-6.9-375-3e3f8 on NetBSD 3.0.

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for the report -- and for testing a coreutils snapshot!

> $ configure --prefix=$HOME/gnu+libiconv CPPFLAGS=-Wall
> ... [big warning that perl is not found] ...
> $ make
> ...
> Making all in doc
> Making all in man
> make: don't know how to make ginstall.x. Stop
>
> make: stopped in /home/bruno/build/coreutils-6.9-375-3e3f8/man
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /home/bruno/build/coreutils-6.9-375-3e3f8
>
> The man/ directory has a file 'install.x' but no 'ginstall.x'.
> The directory also has a file 'install.1' but the MAN variable in the Makefile
> contains 'ginstall.1', not 'install.1'.

That's the problem: it should be install.1.
Could it be that NetBSD 3.0's sed program mishandles this?
[from configure]

# Change ginstall.1 to "install.h" in $MAN.
MAN=`echo "$MAN"|sed 's/\<ginstall\.1\>/install.1/'`