Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 09/11/2007 hora 22:53: >> BTW, there is another package which does this, and which is likely to >> cause you much more trouble: python. The build system compiles the >> modules using the generated python binary. > This is

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 17:18 +0100, Pierre THIERRY a écrit : > Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 09/11/2007 hora 22:53: > > BTW, there is another package which does this, and which is likely to > > cause you much more trouble: python. The build system compiles the > > modules using the generated

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-10 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 09/11/2007 hora 22:53: > BTW, there is another package which does this, and which is likely to > cause you much more trouble: python. The build system compiles the > modules using the generated python binary. This is a classical problem in bootstrapping a language imp

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:53:06PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > BTW, there is another package which does this, and which is likely to > cause you much more trouble: python. The build system compiles the > modules using the generated python binary. Ah, so that is (also) why embedded people don'

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 07 novembre 2007 à 17:08 +, Neil Williams a écrit : > One step better would be to only use help2man *upstream* and package > the manpages in the .orig.tar.gz > > IMHO, the best solution is simply not to use help2man at all but use > doclifter and xsltproc or some other method (docb

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-07 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:08:43PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > I've come across one issue: help2man > > If packages (like coreutils) use 'help2man' during the build, help2man > tries to execute the compiled binary to get the error output to make > into the manpage. Needless to say executing the

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:08:43 + Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:04:48 + > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This thread will discuss the type of changes that are needed, which > > packages are affected and how these bugs will be identified. > >

Re: crossbuild support: help2man considered harmful

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:04:48 + Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This thread will discuss the type of changes that are needed, which > packages are affected and how these bugs will be identified. I've come across one issue: help2man If packages (like coreutils) use 'help2man' during