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cross compilnng, man pages

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From: "Peter Bohning" <peter.bohning <at> gmx.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: cross compilnng, man pages
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 05:18:15 +0200

Cross compiling for aarch64 from amd64
 
Is there no way to disable the man pages in configure options?  Thanks.
 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-11/msg00000.html
 
and
 
[SOLVED]
I found a "NOMAN" patch already on google
https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j...63808443,d.d2k[https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatches.cross-lfs.org%2Fdev%2Fcoreutils-8.22-noman-1.patch&ei=Kjs1U4mVB8SQ0QXm6YGgCQ&usg=AFQjCNFmtYmxuuoRCYEEarrX3xWetlUvUQ&bvm=bv.63808443,d.d2k]

its part of patches.cross-lfs.org

Submitted By: William Harrington (kb0iic at cross-lfs dot org)
Date: 2013-12-23
Initial Package Version: 8.22
Origin: OpenboxI did manage to pass 6.26 Coreutils

[SOLVED]

 
 
One guy has a copy of the man pages he extracts to the source to block the compilation, a couple others mention patches.
None of the links are working anymore.
 
name=`echo man/chroot.1 | sed 's|.*/||; s|\.1$||'` || exit 1;   \
case $name in                                                   \
   install) prog='ginstall'; argv=$name;;                        \
      test) prog='['; argv='[';;                                 \
         *) prog=$name; argv=$prog;;                             \
esac;                                                           \
rm -f man/chroot.1 man/chroot.1-t                 \
   && t=man/chroot.td                                                    \
   && rm -rf $t                                                  \
   && /home/solskogen/obj/tools/bin/mkdir -p $t                  \
   && (cd $t && ln -s
'/home/solskogen/obj/work/coreutils-8.23.ventrix/src/'$prog $argv) \
   && perl -- /home/solskogen/src/source/coreutils-8.23/man/help2man            
                              \
              --source='GNU coreutils 8.23'                      \
--include=/home/solskogen/src/source/coreutils-8.23/man/$name.x            \
              --output=$t/$name.1 $t/$argv                       \
              --info-page='coreutils \(aq'$name' invocation\(aq' \
   && sed \
        -e 's|man/chroot\.td/||g' \
        -e '/For complete documentation/d' \
        $t/$name.1 > man/chroot.1-t                      \
   && rm -rf $t                                                  \
   && chmod a-w man/chroot.1-t                                           \
   && mv man/chroot.1-t man/chroot.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/chroot.td/chroot
 

Message #8 received at 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Peter Bohning <peter.bohning <at> gmx.com>, 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen <at> gmail.com>,
 Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>, 721358 <at> bugs.debian.org,
 Eleanor Chen <chenyueg <at> gmail.com>,
 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo <at> gmail.com>,
 fredrik <at> fornwall.net
Subject: Re: bug#28574: cross compilnng, man pages
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:56:53 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On 23/09/17 20:18, Peter Bohning wrote:
> Cross compiling for aarch64 from amd64
>  
> Is there no way to disable the man pages in configure options?  Thanks.
>  
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-11/msg00000.html

I've seen this issue in various places now (CC'd).

We should probably reinstate distribution of man pages
since these generated pages are so similar on various systems.
Also given the amount of old ChangeLogs removed recently
I don't think the addition of 273K (uncompressed) is prohibitive.

The attached was tested in these modes:
 git repo build
 tarball build with/without help2man
 tarball vpath build with/without help2man
 make distcheck
 make install  (and ensure only enabled program man pages installed)

I've not applied this yet, but hope to soon after a bit more testing.

cheers,
Pádraig

[dist-man-pages.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #11 received at 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 Peter Bohning <peter.bohning <at> gmx.com>, 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen <at> gmail.com>,
 Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>, 721358 <at> bugs.debian.org,
 Eleanor Chen <chenyueg <at> gmail.com>,
 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo <at> gmail.com>,
 fredrik <at> fornwall.net
Subject: Re: bug#28574: cross compilnng, man pages
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 11:53:51 -0700

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> +	&& : $${TZ=UTC} && export TZ					\

That should be UTC0 instead of UTC, as POSIX says that TZ=UTC is not portable. 
Other than that it looks good to me.

Message #16 received at 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo <at> gmail.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen <at> gmail.com>,
 Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>, fredrik <at> fornwall.net,
 721358 <at> bugs.debian.org, Peter Bohning <peter.bohning <at> gmx.com>,
 Eleanor Chen <chenyueg <at> gmail.com>, 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28574: cross compilnng, man pages
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 22:51:37 +0200

Hi Pádraig,

2017-10-01 5:56 GMT+02:00 Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>:
> On 23/09/17 20:18, Peter Bohning wrote:
>> Cross compiling for aarch64 from amd64
>>
>> Is there no way to disable the man pages in configure options?  Thanks.
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-11/msg00000.html
>
> I've seen this issue in various places now (CC'd).
>
> We should probably reinstate distribution of man pages
> since these generated pages are so similar on various systems.
> Also given the amount of old ChangeLogs removed recently
> I don't think the addition of 273K (uncompressed) is prohibitive.
>
> The attached was tested in these modes:
>  git repo build
>  tarball build with/without help2man
>  tarball vpath build with/without help2man
>  make distcheck
>  make install  (and ensure only enabled program man pages installed)
>
> I've not applied this yet, but hope to soon after a bit more testing.

Thanks for taking a look into this, I think that it's a good idea.

In the case that somehow help2man can still end up being used after
applying this, I think that Eleanor's patch (or an equivalent) is
still worth considering, because ultimately when cross-building one
cannot invoke the binaries in the general case.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo <at> gmail.com>

Message #19 received at 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 721358 <at> bugs.debian.org, 28574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Eleanor Chen <chenyueg <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28574: cross compilnng, man pages
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 23:15:13 -0700

On 03/10/17 13:51, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Thanks for taking a look into this, I think that it's a good idea.
> 
> In the case that somehow help2man can still end up being used after
> applying this, I think that Eleanor's patch (or an equivalent) is
> still worth considering, because ultimately when cross-building one
> cannot invoke the binaries in the general case.

Eleanor's patch is a good intermediate solution.
It falls back to dummy-man when cross compiling.

My patch is more invasive and will be effective in the next coreutils release
and falls back to using distributed man pages when cross compiling.

help2man is not invoked in either case.

cheers,
Pádraig

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