On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:08:43 +0000 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:04:48 +0000 > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > > > This thread will discuss the type of changes that are needed, which > > packages are affected and how these bugs will be identified. > > I've come across one issue: help2man > > If packages (like coreutils) use 'help2man' during the build, help2man > tries to execute the compiled binary to get the error output to make > into the manpage. Needless to say executing the compiled binary in a > cross-build causes a build failure. This is actually quite an old bug and help2man is embedded within the coreutils package. #358787 Didn't notice that at first. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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