[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/2] podfix: class to remove Pod::Man versions from manpages

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 3:21 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/12/2019 04:39, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:22 PM Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Manpages generated by Pod::Man contain the version number, which isn't
> >> reproducible if we're using the host Perl to generate manpage.
> >>
> >> One option is to always depend on perl-native when generating manpages
> >> but this is a heavy dependency, so instead strip out the versions in
> >> do_install().
> >>
> >
> > seeing this error
> >
> > https://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/297478/
>
> Exception: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> 'TOPDIR/build/tmp/work/core2-32-yoe-linux/fvwm/2.6.8-r0/image/usr/share/man/man1/fvwm2.1'
>
> Is that actually a broken symlink?
>

it is perhaps I have to rebuilt and check but I think it would be good
if this class did not crash
like that. maybe just report a useful warning of some sort or just ignore it.


> Ross