Hi Jim, thanks for the quick reply. On 04/13/2012 06:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On a Fedora 16 system (the ppc64 one provided by the GCC compile farm, >> "gcc110"), when I try to build automake from a distribution tarball, I >> get this error: >> >> GEN doc/aclocal.1 >> GEN automake >> GEN doc/automake.1 >> GEN aclocal >> GEN lib/Automake/Config.pm >> GEN doc/aclocal-1.11c.1 >> Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm in @INC [...] at ./doc/help2man line 29. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./doc/help2man line 29. >> make: *** [doc/aclocal-1.11c.1] Error 2 >> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... >> >> This is clearly caused by commit 'v1.11b-17-gda0f9ab', "build: generate >> doc/*.1 files; include help2man". >> >> Jim, any idea on which is the best way to fix this? Should we downgrade >> the bundled help2man further? Or should we patch it? Or what else? > > Hi Stefano, > > I'm glad you noticed that. I've attached a proposed fix. > Going back just one release brings us to a script that does > not require that "use" (hard-require) that module. > > I've Cc'd the help2man bug-reporting list. > Note that this help2man issue has probably already been solved in the meantime -- the help2man version 1.40.6 installed on that Fedora system seems to work without error.
> From e93e39c1e07597f8644e9539f8c5daaa47c054e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:58:04 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] build: use slightly older help2man, for improved portability > > * doc/help2man: Downgrade to help2man-1.36.4, so that it does > not require Locale/gettext.pm, which is not available on a > default Fedora 16 installation. Reported by Stefano Lattarini. > Could you please reference the bug number here as well? As in: Subject: [PATCH] build: use slightly older help2man, for improved portability Fixes automake bug#11235 * doc/help2man: Downgrade to help2man-1.36.4, so that it does not require Locale/gettext.pm, which is not available on a default Fedora 16 installation. ACK with that addressed. Thanks, Stefano
