* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:04:22AM CET:
> Wl> If help2man is found, and --enable-maintainer-mode is active, simply
> delete *all* man pages before rebuilding them.
>
> It's not clear to me how to do that. The man page targets are normal
> targets. Adding the equivalent
Karl Berry wrote:
> Sorry, I still do. I don't see that texinfo is doing anything different
> than (say) coreutils, wrt help2man.
Coreutils includes a copy of help2man with the distribution image so
that it will always be available. Whether perl is available to run it
is another story.
Bob
wl> My opinion: Provide a switch to `missing' (say, `-k' or
`--keep-going', similar to the same option in `make') .
But who's going to use it? missing is invoked in the bowels of the
generated Makefiles when help2man is not available. I'm not sure
there's a simple way to override it.
* Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:52:32PM CET:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008 14:33:44 Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > >> test_SOURCES = config.h \
> > >>$(srcdir)/src/module//test.c
> sorry, i missed that part. as Ralf stated, i imagine that's a bug with how
> GNU
On Thursday 27 November 2008 14:33:44 Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> >> Also, if I use $(srcdir) to mark the top level path of the sources, it
> >> won't crash. But not sure if this is the best way to have it:
> >>
> >> test_SOURCES = config.h \
> >>$(srcdir)/src/module//test.c
> >
> >
Also, if I use $(srcdir) to mark the top level path of the sources, it
won't crash. But not sure if this is the best way to have it:
test_SOURCES = config.h \
$(srcdir)/src/module//test.c
afaik, this is correct. the issue has nothing to do with multiple slashes,
but your Makefi
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 05:16:09 Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Also, if I use $(srcdir) to mark the top level path of the sources, it
> won't crash. But not sure if this is the best way to have it:
>
> test_SOURCES = config.h \
>$(srcdir)/src/module//test.c
afaik, this is correct
> I'm unsure however what would be better. Let 'missing' not
> create the output file and exit 1? Let 'missing' create the
> output file and exit 0, so that all man pages will contain the
> `.ab' error message?
My opinion: Provide a switch to `missing' (say, `-k' or
`--keep-going', similar to t
> Instead, it is a run-time requirement caused by the
> --enable-mainter switch.
>
> I was not aware that --enable-maintainer-mode has anything to do
> with help2man.
Mhmm, I'm probably wrong: It doesn't hurt that dependencies to create
man pages are active even in a normal build (since t
