Re: problems with man2hlp

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

>       I am a developer working with Gentoo Linux, and we been having
> problems compiling 4.6.0_pre1 snapshots. This problem arises with
> man2hlp, when trying to transform the man pages to help files this
> program will totally fill up the build partition/dir on various machines
> to which I have not been able to find a common link.  Any advice would
> be appreciated as the snapshots seem to fix alot of problems and are
> coming along nicely.

I have never seen this bug.  Maybe my yesterday's fix helps:

2002-11-11  Pavel Roskin  <proski gnu org> 
,,,
        * man2hlp.c: Warning fixes.  size_t can be unsigned.

Try man2hlp.c from CVS, and if it's still broken, I'll have a closer look.
You can get it from LXR:

http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/mc/src/man2hlp.c?raw=1

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin