Re: autoconf git and no host help2man

[Ross Burton]

On 14/03/2020 16:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/14/20 2:36 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On 14/03/2020 01:03, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > > Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man?
> > >
> > > Yes, it should.
> >
> > Can someone else verify that this is working?
>
> I said that it *should* work, not that it *does* work. I believe you 
> that it doesn't work. (I should have made that clear.)

Okay, so the problem was that I was patching autoreconf.in and the rules 
appear to have been changed/improved so that means rebuilding the 
manpages.  Dropping the patching and it builds without help2man from 
tarball fine.

Ross