From e6c8119c856fd132496ee137167ce16d90baddbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:01:00 +0000
Subject: Fixed generation of diff's man page, fixes #1800. Thanks Randy
 McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix. Also, some slight wording
 adjustments on the Shadow page.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7627 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/diffutils.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter06/diffutils.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/diffutils.xml b/chapter06/diffutils.xml
index 3c55e77b6..855c7d418 100644
--- a/chapter06/diffutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/diffutils.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>The above patch will cause the Diffutils build system to attempt to
+    rebuild the <filename>diff.1</filename> man page using the unavailable
+    program <command>help2man</command>. The result is an unreadable man page for
+    <command>diff</command>. We can avoid this by updating the timestamp on
+    the file <filename>man/diff.1</filename>:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>touch man/diff.1</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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