On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 11:09 AM Allison Karlitskaya <allison.karlitsk...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Since v1.15.1-204-gac47c22e3, "make dist" has been depending on > $(BUILT_SOURCES) to avoid problems when building some GNU packages which > need to compile themselves as part of building their tarballs (for > example, to generate manpage content from --help output).
I have no comment on your patch, but I want to mention that the "compile self in order to generate manpages that go into the tarball" process is troublesome for several other reasons; for the recent release of autoconf itself, I wound up writing a script that insinuates itself into where help2man was looking for the executables and extracts the --help text directly from the *source*. zw
