I I type "head -v" at the command line I get the following: This is lwp-request version 5.810 (libwww-perl-5.812) Copyright 1995-1999, Gisle Aas. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. christopher-shares-computer:~/desktop christophershare$ If I type "head" at the command line I get the following: Usage: head [-options] <url>... -m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD') -f make request even if head believes method is illegal -b <base> Use the specified URL as base -t <timeout> Set timeout value -i <time> Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request -c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN -a Use text mode for content I/O -p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy -P don't load proxy settings from environment -H <header> send this HTTP header (you can specify several) -C <username>:<password> provide credentials for basic authentication -u Display method and URL before any response -U Display request headers (implies -u) -s Display response status code -S Display response status chain -e Display response headers -d Do not display content -o <format> Process HTML content in various ways -v Show program version -h Print this message -x Extra debugging output There's no -n option! In the original script, is the wrong program being called? Cheers, Chris ----- Original Message ---- From: Rob Pearce <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 6:14:00 PM Subject: Re: GTK-OSX Build Problem On Thursday 07 August 2008, Chris Share wrote: > > During the "jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap" stage I'm getting the > following error: > > *** Building gtk-doc *** [4/13] > make > Making all in help > Making all in manual > Unknown option: n > Usage: head [-options] <url>... > -m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD') > -f make request even if head believes method is illegal > -b <base> Use the specified URL as base > -t <timeout> Set timeout value > -i <time> Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request > -c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN > -a Use text mode for content I/O > -p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy > -P don't load proxy settings from environment > -H <header> send this HTTP header (you can specify several) > -C <username>:<password> > provide credentials for basic authentication > > -u Display method and URL before any response > -U Display request headers (implies -u) > -s Display response status code > -S Display response status chain > -e Display response headers > -d Do not display content > -o <format> Process HTML content in various ways > > -v Show program version > -h Print this message > > -x Extra debugging output That looks odd! On *nix systems the "head" command is a tool for printing the first few lines of a file, and the '-n' option is used to specify how many lines. So why your OSX thinks "head" has something to do with URLs and HTTP is rather puzzling. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list