help2man missing

[Bob Friesenhahn]

While building libtool HEAD today, I encountered this problem:

PATH=.:$PATH; export PATH; /bin/bash 
/home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/libltdl /config/missing --run 
help2man --output=/home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/ libtool.1 
--help-option=--help-all libtool
/home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/libltdl/config/missing: line 54: 
help2man: c ommand not found
WARNING: `help2man' is missing on your system.  You should only need 
it if
         you modified a dependency of a manual page.  You may need the
         `Help2man' package in order for those modifications to take
         effect.  You can get `Help2man' from any GNU archive site.

So then I tried installing help2man 1.36.4 and its configure script 
fails with:

checking for pre-loadable libintl... no
configure: error: libpreloadable_libintl.so required (gettext 0.12+)

I have no interest in installing GNU gettext on this system (Solaris) 
since I have been down that irrevertable rats-nest before.

Am I now out of luck with building development libtool?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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