Re: help2man missing

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bob,

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:33:12PM CET:
> 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.

FWIW, as workaround it should also be possible to
  : > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/libtool.1
  : > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/doc/libtoolize.1
  make

then you will see the warning again but it won't be an error any more.

Since a tarball will ship with the man pages this is what will happen
with them, in case you update any of their prerequisites.

Cheers,
Ralf