Tarball Generation Fail - WARNING: The man page cannot be updated yet - cp: cannot stat

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As requested:

Clean
//spawn a new "konsole" just in case the environment was altered (like
from the git build attempt (the result was the same))
$ cd <pathToSrcs>/gettext
$ git clean -xdf
$ git reset --hard
//"HEAD is now at fac254a Update after gnulib changed."
$ cd <pathToOotBuilds>/gettext
$ rm -rf *

$ pushd <pathToSrcs>/gettext
$ GNULIB_SRCDIR="<pathToSrcs>/gnulib" \
./autogen.sh
$ popd

$ <pathToSrcs>/gettext/configure
$ make -j1 dist


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...
make  distdir-am
make[6]: Entering directory '/<pathToOotBuilds>/gettext/build/
gettext-runtime/man'
progname=`echo gettext.1.in | sed -e 's/\.in$//' -e 's/\.1$//'`; \
IN_HELP2MAN=1 /bin/sh x-to-1  "/usr/bin/perl" "/usr/bin/perl -w --
/<pathToSrcs>/get
text/gettext-runtime/man/help2man" \
 ../src/${progname}
/<pathToSrcs>/gettext/gettext-runtime/man/${progname}.x gettext
.1.in
WARNING: The man page gettext.1.in cannot be updated yet.
...
progname=`echo bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html | sed -e 's/\.3\.html$//'`; \
m=${progname}.3.in; \
test -f ./$m || srcdir=/<pathToSrcs>/gettext/gettext-runtime/man/; \
if test -f ${srcdir}$m; then groff -mandoc -Thtml ${srcdir}$m >
t-bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html && sed -e 's/\&minus;/-/g' -e
'/CreationDate:/d' < t-bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html >
t2-bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html && mv
t2-bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html; rm
-f t-bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html t2-bind_textdomain_codeset.3.html;
fi
cp: cannot stat
'/<pathToSrcs>/gettext/gettext-runtime/man/gettext.1.in': No such file
or directory
make[6]: *** [Makefile:2048: distdir-am] Error 1
...
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The relevant findings were already provided in IRC.
I still don't think providing a "--disable-man" option to configure,
or to allow the @CROSS_COMPILE@ test to pass allowing that scenario to
also build the man files if the build system has the required tools
(ideal option), is "overkill".