Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

[Karl Berry]

    Shouldn't ./configure check for its presence if it's going to be used?

It is not needed by users installing from a release.  It is only needed
by people installing from the development sources, who, yes, are
expected to have the current versions of GNU tools installed
(./README-hacking).  Although, as you've seen, you can make it work with
other versions.  So fine, be happy :).

I don't see a way to check for such things that is a substantive
improvement over the missing script.  I think it's unwarranted to add
more complications in configure about "is this a source build vs. a
release build" merely for the sake of a different warning.

karl