GNU bug report logs - #12715
coreutils-8.20: bad dependency information with man page generation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:30:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 12715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>,
	Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
	Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>,
	coreutils <at> gnu.org, 12715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at
	build-from-tarball time
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
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