Not compiling because of help2man

[philipgiuliani]

I had issues compiling the 0.9.0 version, while 0.8.2 works fine.

./configure runs fine, but make fails with the following error:

make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'fwup.h2m', needed by 'fwup.1'.  Stop.

After removing the following code from src/Makefile.am it worked fine.

if HAVE_HELP2MAN
man_MANS = fwup.1
CLEANFILES = $(man_MANS)
EXTRA_DIST += fwup.h2m

fwup.1: fwup$(EXEEXT) fwup.h2m
    $(HELP2MAN) --no-discard-stderr --output=$@ --no-info --include fwup.h2m \
        -n "configurable embedded firmware update creator and runner" \
        ./fwup$(EXEEXT)
else
    @echo  "Warning: help2man not available, no man page created."
endif

If you have any questions, just ask!

[fhunleth]

I see that there's an issue since EXTRA_DIST += fwup.h2m should be outside of the if statement. However, I'm not sure that this is causing your issue. Do you have this file? https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup/blob/master/src/fwup.h2m. If you don't, then how did you get the fwup source code? Git, releases link, somewhere else?

[philipgiuliani]

Seems that i dont have the file. Downloaded it from the Github releases page! Could you check that? Im currently in the train!

[fhunleth]

I found it. Travis didn't have help2man installed and the if statement above caused the file to not be included. I could have sworn that travis had help2man installed for earlier releases.

I've pushed two changes to fix this issue: c077698 and e4abcc2. The first will always distribute the fwup.h2m. The second makes sure that help2man is run on Travis so that manpage generation is exercised.

Thanks for letting me know about this!