Subject: bug#18436: Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:19:30 +0200

On 09/19/2014 06:36 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] build: fix dependency issues with man page generation
> 
> * .gitignore: Remove reference to no longer generated make file.
> * configure.ac: Don't bother generating placeholder make file.
> * man/local.mk: Hardcode the man page deps list for normal builds
> to be compatible with all make implementations and configure options.
> Note in SINGLE_BINARY mode, all man pages will be generated on
> any change to the coreutils binary, but development will generally
> not be done in this mode, so this shouldn't be an issue.

It is:

  $ make clean
  $ make
  $ make syntax-check -j
  ...
  help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/coreutils.td/coreutils
  Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
  prohibit_inttostr_without_use
  prohibit_jm_in_m4
  make: *** [man/coreutils.1] Error 127
  make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This only goes away without -j here.

Otherwise +1.

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny