Re: gnu hello: 'make distcheck' fails on FreeBSD

[Sami Kerola]

On 13 March 2014 16:15, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Trying the latest "Gnu Hello" on FreeBSD, "make distcheck" fails:
>> ===
>> <...>
>> <snip... after hello is compiled and linked successfully ...>
>> <...>
>>
>> depbase=`echo src/hello.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`; cc
>> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/home/gordon/hello/hello-2.9.27-f95ba-dirty/_inst/share/locale\"
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -Ilib -I../lib -Isrc -I../src    -g -O2 -MT
>> src/hello.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/hello.o ../src/hello.c && mv
>> -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
>> cc  -g -O2   -o hello src/hello.o  ./lib/libhello.a
>> /bin/sh /usr/home/gordon/hello/hello-2.9.27-f95ba-dirty/build-aux/missing
>> help2man --include=../man/hello.x ./hello -o ../hello.1
>> help2man: can't unlink ../hello.1 (Permission denied)
>
> Hi Assaf,
> Thank you for that report.
> I've fixed it with the attached patch.

Hi Assaf and Jim,

Thank you for bug report. I double checked Jim's patch, and it seemed
to work very well. To my surprise the change was already in upstream
git, so I think Reuben and I accidentally duplicated review.

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Sami Kerola
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