Re: coreutils 8.30 "bootstap"

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>:

| > manuals comes to play, help2info tries to execute the compiled
| > binaries to get the man pages from --help output, but the compiled
| > binaries are not executable on the host target, since its not
| > multiarch.
| > 
| > Generating the main pages will fail, and build terminates.
| > 
| > How could I solve this problem and let coreutils compile in this
| > environment?

| I think you should take the distribution tarball [1] rather than
| './bootstrap'ing from the 'coreutils.git' repo.

Well, its the distribution tarball, so in this case we have to
investigate why it tries to regenerate the man pages?

Maybe due configuring and building outside of srcdir?