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

[Bruno Haible]

On 2024-07-09 I wrote:
> <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.

This has now been fixed, through
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=088a93812e2c9aa60faa0f322c4a75852731387a

Also, a similar issue has been fixed in GNU gperf, through
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gperf.git;a=commitdiff;h=5d1c6f3e24edaaf731f2543adea96a337442c5fd

And similar issues have been reported for
  - GNU diffutils
    https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=72237
  - GNU m4
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2024-07/msg00000.html
  - GNU texinfo
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-07/msg00007.html

Thanks for the report!

Bruno