Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] squashfs-tools: always install prebuilt manpage

[richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org]

On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 18:42 +0800, Changqing Li wrote:
> From: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
> 
> When other feature enabled, and involve help2man into squashfs-tools's
> recipe-sysroot-native, install-manpages.sh will run target binary on
> build host, eg: mksquashfs --help, which will cause error.
> Eg:
>  ../squashfs-tools/mksquashfs: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ../squashfs-tools/mksquashfs)
> > help2man: can't get `--help' info from /tmp/tmp.pEG5R8COVb/mksquashfs.sh
> > Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> > ./mksquashfs-manpage.sh: help2man returned error.  Aborting
> > ../generate-manpages/install-manpages.sh: Failed to generate manpage.  Aborting
> 
> Fixed by always install prebuilt manpage, avoid running target binary on
> build host
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>

I'd much prefer not to carry a patch doing this. Which "other feature
enabled" trigger this to happen?

We might want to talk to upstream about making this configurable rather
than carrying a patch, or we make sure help2man is never accessible to
this recipe in some other way.

Cheers,

Richard