<![CDATA[Sakura 2.4.0 build failure]]>I was just trying to build the Sakura terminal emulator. More-or-less following the instructions exactly, after running “cmake .”, I then ran “make” at which point I got the following:

Unknown option: u
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/man] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/man.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Yeah, it’s not exactly the most helpful output, is it? This is what I hate about CMake and non-standard build systems in general. Eventually I figured out the problem is in the file “CMakeFiles/man.dir/build.make” where the target “CMakeFiles/man:” calls the “pod2man” utility (from that almighty piece-of-crap scripting language, perl) with a “-u” argument which “pod2man” doesn’t seem to recognize (perl 5.8.8). Removing that makes the build complete.

 

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