Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16g snapshot

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:03 AM Dagobert Michelsen <dam@opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Am 20.09.2021 um 04:37 schrieb Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>:
> > We're preparing for a new release.
> > See NEWS below. Please give it a spin and report any success or failure.
> >
> > Thanks to Karl for doing so much of the work.
> >
> > There have been 11 commits by 6 people in the 8 weeks since 1.16.4.
> > See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
>
> I have an early build failure on help2man on Solaris 10 x86:
>
> gmake: Entering directory 
> '/home/dam/mgar/pkg/automake/trunk/work/solaris10-i386/build-isa-pentium_pro-version-1.16/automake-1.16'
>   GEN      bin/automake
>   GEN      bin/aclocal
>   GEN      bin/aclocal-1.16
>   GEN      bin/automake-1.16
>   GEN      t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
>   GEN      t/ax/cc-no-c-o
>   GEN      runtest
>   GEN      doc/aclocal.1
>   GEN      doc/automake.1
>   GEN      lib/Automake/Config.pm
>   GEN      doc/aclocal-1.16.1
>   GEN      doc/automake-1.16.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from automake-1.16
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> gmake: *** [Makefile:3694: doc/automake-1.16.1] Error 255

Thanks for the speedy feedback!
Would you please see if reverting to the version of doc/help2man from
1.16.4 makes it work?

Also, building with V=1 will cause "make" to show more about commands
it is running. That may help, too.