pango @1.52.2 does not build on PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11, because help2man: can't get `--help-all' info from .../pango-view

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

[74/78] Generating utils/pango-view.1 with a custom command
FAILED: utils/pango-view.1 
/opt/local/bin/help2man --no-info --section=1 --help-option=--help-all '--name="Pango text viewer"' --output=utils/pango-view.1 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/utils/pango-view
help2man: can't get `--help-all' info from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/utils/pango-view
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
[75/78] Generating pango/PangoCairo-1.0.typelib with a custom command
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Could not rebuild /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build" && /opt/local/bin/meson install 
Exit code: 255
Error: Failed to destroot pango: command execution failed

help2man @1.49.3_0 (active) requested_variants='' platform='darwin 8' archs='ppc' date='2023-01-07T18:57:01+0100' is installed, pango-view does exist:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  178156 30 Apr 20:39 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/utils/pango-view

and is Mach-O executable ppc, the output file exist as well:

root 239 /\ l /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/utils/
total 544
-rwxr-xr-x    1 macports  admin   45340 30 Apr 20:35 pango-list
drwxr-xr-x    3 macports  admin     102 30 Apr 20:39 pango-list.p
-rwxr-xr-x    1 macports  admin   41896 30 Apr 20:35 pango-segmentation
drwxr-xr-x    3 macports  admin     102 30 Apr 20:39 pango-segmentation.p
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root      admin  178156 30 Apr 20:39 pango-view
-rw-r--r--    1 macports  admin    3566 30 Apr 20:35 pango-view.1
drwxr-xr-x   10 macports  admin     340 30 Apr 20:39 pango-view.p

/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt has at its end:

   2950   User defined options
   2951     prefix            : /opt/local
   2952     wrap_mode         : nodownload
   2953     build-examples    : false
   2954     fontconfig        : enabled
   2955     freetype          : enabled
   2956     install-tests     : false
   2957     introspection     : enabled
   2958     libthai           : disabled
   2959     xft               : enabled
   2960 
   2961 Found ninja-1.12.0 at /opt/local/bin/ninja
   2962 Failed to guess install tag for /opt/local/share/man/man1/pango-view.1

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Main.log from PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11

[barracuda156]

Fails on 10.4.11 for me as well.

[66/78] Generating utils/pango-view.1 with a custom command
FAILED: utils/pango-view.1 
/opt/local/bin/help2man --no-info --section=1 --help-option=--help-all '--name="Pango text viewer"' --output=utils/pango-view.1 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/utils/pango-view
help2man: can't get `--help-all' info from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build/utils/pango-view
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
[67/78] Generating pango/Pango-1.0.gir with a custom command (wrapped by meson to set env)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Could not rebuild /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_x11_pango/pango/work/build" && /opt/local/bin/meson install 
Exit code: 255