Re: GTK-OSX Build Problem

[Rob Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk>]

On Thursday 07 August 2008, Chris Share wrote:
>
> During the "jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap" stage I'm getting the
> following error:
>
> *** Building gtk-doc *** [4/13]
> make
> Making all in help
> Making all in manual
> Unknown option: n
> Usage: head [-options] <url>...
>     -m <method>   use method for the request (default is 'HEAD')
>     -f            make request even if head believes method is illegal
>     -b <base>     Use the specified URL as base
>     -t <timeout>  Set timeout value
>     -i <time>     Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request
>     -c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN
>     -a            Use text mode for content I/O
>     -p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy
>     -P            don't load proxy settings from environment
>     -H <header>   send this HTTP header (you can specify several)
>     -C <username>:<password>
>                   provide credentials for basic authentication
>
>     -u            Display method and URL before any response
>     -U            Display request headers (implies -u)
>     -s            Display response status code
>     -S            Display response status chain
>     -e            Display response headers
>     -d            Do not display content
>     -o <format>   Process HTML content in various ways
>
>     -v            Show program version
>     -h            Print this message
>
>     -x            Extra debugging output

That looks odd! On *nix systems the "head" command is a tool for printing the 
first few lines of a file, and the '-n' option is used to specify how many 
lines. So why your OSX thinks "head" has something to do with URLs and HTTP 
is rather puzzling.