[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] fwup: blanked out MANS to avoid running help2man

Jordan Yelloz jordan at yelloz.me
Mon Jun 13 22:09:50 UTC 2016


On 06/13/2016 02:51 PM, Frank Hunleth wrote:
> Hi Jordan,
> 
> How about the following for disabling 'help2man'?
> 
> # help2man doesn't work when cross compiling
> FWUP_CONF_ENV = ac_cv_path_HELP2MAN=''
> 
> This is similar to what's done for the torsmo package, and it seems a
> little more obvious in purpose.
> 

Good point, I will post a new patch with this change instead.

>> +FWUP_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS = install-exec DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR)
> 
> The only other file that should be installed is the bash completions
> file. That's automatically removed from the target unless you have
> bash enabled.
> 

This was actually necessary with my inferior patch because help2man was
still needed to produce the man page which was part of the `install'
target but with your approach it's no longer needed.

--
Jordan



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