[OE-core] [PATCH] coreutils: drop patch that unconditionally mangles manpages

Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker at windriver.com
Wed Aug 6 20:38:35 UTC 2014


commit 841ec528ec04e64bd09ff10f8d9ad2d6e3aac05d ("coreutils: update
to upstream version 9.21") added a patch which bypassed the check
for perl and hence defaults to using the dummy man page for all
of the coreutils manpages.  This results in all manpages looking like:

  NAME
       chmod - a GNU coreutils 8.22 program

  DESCRIPTION
       OOOPS!   Due to the lack of perl on the build system, we were unable to
       create a proper manual page for chmod.

It is unclear why the test was disabled, but since it clearly
causes the manpages to be useless, we need to drop this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.22/dummy_help2man.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.22/dummy_help2man.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4757f52aa0be..000000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.22/dummy_help2man.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [disable feature]
-
-Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74 at gmail.com>
-diff -Nurd coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk
---- coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk	2013-02-05 16:01:21.000000000 +0200
-+++ coreutils-8.21/man/local.mk	2013-03-23 09:12:53.360470192 +0200
-@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
- EXTRA_DIST += man/help2man man/dummy-man
-
- ## Graceful degradation for systems lacking perl.
--if HAVE_PERL
--run_help2man = $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/man/help2man
--else
-+#if HAVE_PERL
-+#run_help2man = $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/man/help2man
-+#else
- run_help2man = $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/man/dummy-man
--endif
-+#endif
-
- man1_MANS = @man1_MANS@
- EXTRA_DIST += $(man1_MANS:.1=.x)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.22.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.22.bb
index d5373ae9d66a..b19c1691eb10 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.22.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.22.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ inherit autotools gettext texinfo
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/coreutils/${BP}.tar.xz \
            file://remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch \
-           file://dummy_help2man.patch \
            file://fix-for-dummy-man-usage.patch \
           "
 
-- 
1.9.1




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