Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#89 closed defect (invalid)

Existance of help2man not checked in the configure stage

Reported by: Michael Schlenker Owned by: Olly Betts
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Other Version: SVN trunk
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Operating System: Linux

Description

When configuring and building xapian, the step to build the xapian-config.1 file fails in xapian-core, if the help2man binary is not found on the system.

It seems configure does not check for this.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Olly Betts, 18 years ago

Status: newassigned

The rule to rebuild xapian-config.1 is only active in you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode. Using this switch should cause configure to fail if any documentation building tools aren't found (including help2man). So I can't see how this can happen!

Can you attach your config.log?

comment:2 by Michael Schlenker, 18 years ago

Operating System: Linux
Resolution: invalid
Status: assignedclosed

Seems my sandbox was somehow broken. It works in a fresh svn checkout.

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