Re: sed-4.8.39-23ea on Alpine Linux

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 4:50 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> On Alpine Linux 3.14/x86_64:
>
> During "make check", 2 tests fail:
>
> FAIL: testsuite/misc
> ====================
>
> ../build-aux/test-driver: line 112: -w: not found
> FAIL testsuite/misc.pl (exit status: 127)
>
> FAIL: testsuite/debug
> =====================
>
> ../build-aux/test-driver: line 112: -w: not found
> FAIL testsuite/debug.pl (exit status: 127)
>
>
> The machine does not have 'perl' installed.

Thank you. I believe this is fixed by just-pushed
d1d7eeafe4a561c0b165085bc7bceb3220c66ac4:

    build: work when perl is installed but not in /usr/bin/perl

    Also support building on systems without perl and when cross-compiling.
    * configure.ac (AC_ARG_ENABLE [bold-man-page-references]): New
    configure-time option, using code copied from coreutils.
    (BUILD_MAN_PAGE, BUILD_DUMMY_MAN_PAGE): Remove definitions.
    (HAVE_PERL): Remove bogus conditional.
    * doc/dummy-man: New file, from coreutils, with slight adapation.
    * build-aux/help2man: Update from coreutils.
    * doc/local.mk (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute dummy-man.
    (run_help2man): New variable.
    (doc/sed.1): Use it rather than simply invoking help2man.
    Simplify to use only one copy of this rule, now that run_help2man
    works both with and without perl and when cross-compiling.
    Move the --name=... string argument into...
    * doc/sed.x: ... here. Also make the "Synopsis" appear in generated file.
    In https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2022-10/msg00005.html,
    Bruno Haible reported build failure with perl in a different
    location and (in another report) another failure with no perl at all.