Re: texinfo build failed on macOS Catalina: "help2man: can't get `--help' info from ..//tp/makeinfo"

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:34:50PM +0900, 川原智和 wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to build texinfo from repositpry source on macOS Catalina.
> Confoigure script seemed to go well, but make was failed with the message
> "help2man: can't get `--help' info from ..//tp/makeinfo":

What exactly did you run before you got the following output?  Did you 
run "make" or something else?

> cd ..//tp && /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make
> makeinfo
> 
> rm -f makeinfo
> 
> ln -s texi2any makeinfo
> 
> /bin/sh /src/git/texinfo/build-aux/missing help2man --name="translate
> Texinfo documents" -I ./makeinfo.h2m ..//tp/makeinfo -o makeinfo.1
> 
> make[3]: `ginstall-info' is up to date.
> 
> /bin/sh /src/git/texinfo/build-aux/missing help2man --name="update info/dir
> entries" -I ./ginstall-info.h2m ..//install-info/ginstall-info -o
> install-info.1
> 
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from ..//tp/makeinfo
> 
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> 
> make[2]: *** [makeinfo.1] Error 2
> 
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> hoge@hoge texinfo %
> 
> 
> 
> Please tell me how to fix it?

I suspect something is wrong with the texi2any file.  Could you try 
running "tp/texi2any --help" and see what happens?