help2man-1.36.4

SHA256SUMS.sources

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ f0cde70a8f135098a6a3e85869f2e1cc3f141beea766fa3d6636e086cd8b90a7  autoconf-2.59.
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@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ e87aae032bf07c26f85ac0ed3250998c37621d95f8bd748b31f15b33c45ee995  flex-2.6.4.tar
 a32032bab36208509466654df12f507600dfe0313feebbcd218c32a70bf72a16  grep-2.4.tar.gz
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+a4adadf76b496a6bc50795702253ecfcb6f0d159b68038f31a5362009340bca2  help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
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parts.rst

@@ -489,6 +489,14 @@ automake 1.8.5
 We need newer ``automake`` to proceed to newer ``autoconf`` versions. This is the latest
 automake version from 1.8 release series.
 
+help2man 1.36.4
+===============
+
+``help2man`` automatically generates manpages from programs ``--help`` and ``--version``
+outputs. This is not strictly required for bootstrapping but will help us to avoid patching
+build process to skip generation of manpages. This is the newest version of ``help2man`` that
+does not require Perl 5.8.
+
 bash 3.2.57
 ===========
 

rootfs.sh

@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
 # automake 1.8.5
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.5.tar.bz2
 
+# help2man 1.36.4
+get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
+
 # bash 3.2.57
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.2.57.tar.gz
 

sysa/help2man-1.36.4/help2man-1.36.4.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    autoreconf-2.59 -f
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    CC=tcc ./configure --prefix="${PREFIX}" --disable-nls
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+    make
+
+    # fix a broken shebang
+    tail -n +6 help2man > help2man.tmp
+    echo "#!/${PREFIX}/bin/perl" > help2man
+    cat help2man.tmp >> help2man
+    rm help2man.tmp
+}

sysa/run.sh

@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ build autoconf-2.59
 
 build automake-1.8.5
 
+build help2man-1.36.4
+
 build bash-3.2.57
 
 exec bash run2.sh