> help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/automake
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
Regarding automake's running of help2man. I forgot that this is ok
because automake (doc/local.mk) includes a copy of the help2man script
itself in its distribution, inst
$output =~ s/^((#.*)?\n)*\K/.POSIX:\n\n/;
Solaris 10 'perl --version' says it's Perl v5.8.4. v5.8.4 is dated
2004 but \K was added in v5.10
I simply removed the \K, since its only purpose is to optimize use of $&
(matched text), but we aren't using $& with this regexp, so far a
Here's line 8135:
$output =~ s/^((#.*)?\n)*\K/.POSIX:\n\n/;
Ah. I'll get rid of the \K, once I remember/look up what it does :).
(Jacob, if you have any advice, that would be great.)
A simple fix would be for Automake to require Perl 5.10;
Nah, we shouldn't require a jump in
On 2023-12-19 14:54, Karl Berry wrote:
Hi Paul,
help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/automake
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
So, the obvious question is, why can't help2man run bin/automake?
Clearly it works on other systems, and it doesn't seem like this
Hi Paul,
help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/automake
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
So, the obvious question is, why can't help2man run bin/automake?
Clearly it works on other systems, and it doesn't seem like this should
be especially system-dependent. Can
Here are the symptoms. But now that I look into it, I see the
automake-1.16 build fails with the same symptoms. So I assume this is
low priority.
GEN doc/automake-1.16.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/automake
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
*** Error co
