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

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

<nroycea+gnu@gmail.com> alias <Guest35> wrote:
> $ pushd <pathToSrcs>/gettext
> $ GNULIB_SRCDIR="<pathToSrcs>/gnulib" \
> ./autogen.sh
> $ popd
> 
> $ <pathToSrcs>/gettext/configure
> $ make -j1 dist

Oh, I see. The 'dist' target works only after "make". So, do
  $ make all dist
rather than
  $ make dist

I need to think about whether this can be easily fixed.

> 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".

These would be workarounds that add extra complexity, for a rare
use-case. Instead of building from git with a cross-compiler, do
  1. build from git with a native compiler, then do "make dist",
  2. build that new tarball with a cross-compiler.

Bruno