During emerge -ev system, flex refused to build because of this: make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r3/work/flex-2.5.33/doc' for i in flex.1 ; do \ help2man --name='fast lexical analyzer generator' --section=`echo $i|rev|cut -f 1 -d .|rev` ../flex > $i ; \ done /bin/sh: line 1: help2man: command not found make[2]: *** [flex.1] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r3/work/flex-2.5.33/doc' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r3/work/flex-2.5.33' make: *** [all] Error 2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -v1 sys-devel/flex #without help2man --> crash 2.emerge -v1 sys-apps/help2man 3.emerge -v1 sys-devel/flex #runs fine now Actual Results: After installing help2man, flex builds fine
the manpage doesnt actually need to be regenerated fixed in cvs