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coreutils-8.20: bad dependency information with man page generation

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>, Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>, coreutils <at> gnu.org, 12715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:42:43 +0100

On 10/26/2012 10:34 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> +** Build-related
> +
> +  The generated man/*.1 man pages are no longer distributed.  Building
> +  without perl, you would create stub man pages, and besides would be
> +  unable to run a significant percentage of the tests (so don't do that!).
> +  Thus, while perl is not an official prerequisite (build and "make check"
> +  will still succeed), any resulting man pages would be inferior.

We should probably mention that this fixes a parallel build failure
when building modified sources, like a patched distro package for example.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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