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

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:08:31 +0200

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> 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.

Good point.
I've merged this in:

diff --git a/man/dummy-man b/man/dummy-man
index 633a5ba..3069376 100755
--- a/man/dummy-man
+++ b/man/dummy-man
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ cat >"$output" <<END
 $progname $bs- a $source program
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B OOOPS!
-Due to lack of perl on your system, the $source build system
-failed to create the manual page for
+Due to the lack of perl on the build system, we were
+unable to create a proper manual page for
 .B $progname.
 For concise option descriptions, run
 .IP