Re: [patches] a few more man-page improvements

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:11PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Attached is another small set of man-page tweaks.  The second
> patch is a big one: it standardizes the phrases for the --help
> and --version options in all man pages.
> 
> 
> By the way, when trying to build util-linux from git, I get errors
> for mount and getopt.  The output of a second 'make -k':
> 
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ben/UTLNX'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/UTLNX/po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/UTLNX/po'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/UTLNX'
> rm: cannot remove 'mount': Is a directory
> make[2]: *** [mount] Error 1
> rm: cannot remove 'getopt': Is a directory
> make[2]: *** [getopt] Error 1
> make[2]: Target `all-am' not remade because of errors.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/UTLNX'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/UTLNX'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> This has been like this for quite a while.  I thought I must be
> doing something wrong or missing some tool, but I wonder.
> 
> Trying a 'make clean' ends in:
> 
> Making clean in .
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ben/UTLNX'
>  rm -f dmesg mount umount wdctl mountpoint lsblk findmnt kill
> rm: cannot remove 'mount': Is a directory
> make[1]: *** [clean-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/UTLNX'
> make: *** [clean-recursive] Error 1

 Oh, it seems you have very old stuff in your work tree, try:
 
    git clean -xdf
    git checkout -f
 
 or you can delete all and git clone again ;-)
 
    Karel
 
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