| Summary: | sys-boot/grub-9999 needs sys-apps/help2man for man page creation | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Eric Thibodeau <kyron> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | admwiggin |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | Emerge log file, as requested (pre-help2man installation) | ||
Hi, can you please attach an full build.log of an failing emerge? Thanks. Created attachment 249755 [details]
Emerge log file, as requested (pre-help2man installation)
This is also needed on =sys-boot/grub-1.99_rc1 (and possibly earlier versions, that's the only one I tried). Failed at src_install trying to stat grub-install.8 until I installed help2man manually. |
help2man is now required to generate the manpages. If it's not present, manpages won't be generated silently and portage will fail at src_install() + "if use multislot " (die attempting to `mv "${D}"/usr/share/man/man8/grub{,2}-install.8 || die`). It would seem the error would only be triggered with USE=multislot, which means that some people might end up with no mapages (if USE=-multislot) and wonder why. Reproducible: Always Temporary fix is to manually install sys-apps/help2man-1.38.2, the only version I tried and it works.