Subject: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:04:49 +0200

On 10/25/2012 03:37 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> -Due to lack of perl on your system, the GNU coreutils build system
> -hasn't been able to create the manual page for
> +Due to lack of perl on your system, the $source build system
> +failed to create the manual page for

Isn't it "Due to lack on the build system, ..."?

I.e. coreutils could be built on system A lacking perl,
and then be installed on system B which has perl. The above
text would be misleading in this case.

Have a nice day,
Berny