Re: RCS 5.9.0 does not compile on Solaris

[Jörn Clausen]

extract-help now sets a positive return value, so make stops:

gmake[1]: Entering directory `/pkgsrc/source/local/rcs-5.9.0/src'
../build-aux/extract-help -o ci.help ci.c
gmake[1]: *** [ci.help] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/pkgsrc/source/local/rcs-5.9.0/src'
gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


$ .../rcs-5.9.0/src> ../build-aux/extract-help -o ci.help ci.c
$ .../rcs-5.9.0/src> echo $?
1

which probably means, that the last condition in the script still does 
not work as expected. The line

#include "b-yacmd.h"

is still not included in the help file.

The solution in pkgsrc (which is the source of this software for me) was 
to switch to ksh:

$ .../rcs-5.9.0/src> ksh ../build-aux/extract-help -o ci.help ci.c
$ .../rcs-5.9.0/src> echo $?
0

which also generates the correct include line.

In the end, the pkgsrc maintainer decided not to use the generated 
man-pages at all, but to install the pregenerated ones:

 * Do not make man pages, use shipped version.
   Generating man pages required groff's soelim and pic.

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