Re: [PATCH] libtasn: fixed cross build issue

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 18:07 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
> >> | /bin/sh ../libtasn1-2.12-r1/libtasn1-2.12/build-aux/missing --run help2man --info-page libtasn1 \
> >> |       --name="ASN.1 DER encoder" \
> >> |       --output=asn1Coding.1 ../src/asn1Coding
> >> | help2man: can't get `--help' info from ../src/asn1Coding
> >> | Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> >> | make[3]: *** [asn1Coding.1] Error 1
> >> 
> >> which was caused by touching configure.ac which is a dependency of the
> >> generated man pages.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
> >> ---
> >>  meta/recipes-support/gnutls/libtasn1_2.12.bb |   10 +++++++++-
> >>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > This is just a workaround, I thought we'd found a better way to handle
> > this.
> 
> setting HELP2MAN environment to 'true' for cross-builds might be a
> general solution.... But this does not seem to be implemented...

Right, I remember looking into this and its hard to disable. I've pushed
a PATH change to address this problem...

Cheers,

Richard