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Re: How do you generate test.1 man page in 8.21?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: How do you generate test.1 man page in 8.21? |
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Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:06:11 -0600 |
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On 10/11/2013 06:47 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Hello,
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> I have built coreutils 8.21 on VMS and ran into an issue with generating
> the man page file test.1.
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> The test utility does not accept either the --help or --version option
> that help2man expects.
Ah, but '[ --help' does. This is named lbracket during intermediate
builds due to the awkwardness of representing '[' in make rules, so
build test.1 from 'lbracket --help' instead of 'test --help'.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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