Re: Error running help2man on aclocal-1.13.1

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 01/09/2013 10:13 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2013-01-09 19:11, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 
>> On 01/09/2013 05:05 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>
>>> The 
>>>
>>>     help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./aclocal
>>>
>>> error seems to have reappeared in automake-1.13.1 (judging from 
>>> http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/Man-pages-for-automake-and-aclocal-td11966.html)
>>>  
>>>
>>> help2man is of version 1.40.12.
>>>
>> Does the problem appear also when you use the help2man version bundled
>> with Automake (see 'doc/help2man'), and the rules provided by Automake's
>> own build system?
> 
> Relying on Makefile.am to produce the manpages works.
> 
> 
> Now I just have to figure out why someone thought that openSUSE
> should create the manpages directly... :)
>
Good question :-)

> 
> The following command, using automake's help2man, also fails:
> 
>  perllibdir=lib
>
Ah, setting this variable was just an undocumented hack used by the
Automake testsuite.  Since Automake 1.13 (and possibly also some 1.12.x
for some value of x) that has been superseded by the use of the wrapper
scripts in 't/wrap/'.

> ./doc/help2man -S FSF ./aclocal  \
>    >/var/tmp/bduilroot/usr/share/man/man1/aclocal.1
>
What happens if you do this instead?

    help2man -S FSF ./t/wrap/aclocal-1.13 > output.1

Does this fix your problem?

Regards,
  Stefano