Re: coreutils 8.30 "bootstap"

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:

| >>   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=f114495e3e
| > 
| > Outch:
| > 
| >   WARNING: Did not generate or find default 'false.1' man page.
| >   WARNING: Creating a stub man page instead.
| > 
| > That approach fails for 'false.1' because 'false' is the only
| > program which also exits non-Zero with --help.
| > 
| > @Padraig:
| > unless we're adding a workaround for 'false' (I can't think of),
| > I suggest to revert this commit for the imminent v8.31.
| > Do you have another idea?

| Maybe test the redirected output is non zero size.
| I'll look into it before release.

Pádraig, thats a great idea, since "false --help > output" generates a
zero length output file, and all other apps' output is greater than zero.

Sadly I have no skill to modify the patch.

Thanks for the idea!