Re: problems with man2hlp

["Brad Cowan" <bcowan linuxmail org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 03:01:29 -0500 (EST)
To: Brad Cowan <bcowan gentoo org>
Subject: Re: problems with man2hlp


> 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
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin


After further testing, and doing what u suggested, the filling of entire partition is still happening.

../../src/man2hlp mc.1 ./xnc.hlp mc.hlp.es
 
This is where the compile does this on the boxes in question.

Thanks,
Brad Cowan
General Developer
Gentoo Linux
<bcowan gentoo org>
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