> That's because AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR (provided by Autoconf) is only
> meant to accept one directory as its argument. For two or more
> dirs, you should use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS instead (which BTW also
> works if only one dir is given, so I'd suggest you to
> unconditionally prefer it over AC_CONF
> The following patch (against git Automake) moves the test to the
> `distdir' target, which is updated by both `dist' and `distcheck'.
Looks good.
Werner
> Anyway, maintainer-mode isn't very interesting; few packages use it.
> The more important question is what to do in non-maintainer mode,
> where (it seems to me) exactly the same problem will occur. For
> instance, in GNU Hello (well, except that has only one man page) or
> coreutils.
Well, if
> 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
> I suggest that in case help2man isn't found, the dummy version
> of info.1 gets removed (perhaps by adding `|| rm -f $@ && false'
> to the rules using HELP2MAN).
>
> Although I could change this in Texinfo as you suggest, it seems to
> me it affects every package using help2man and t
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry)
Subject: Re: ftp.gnu.org no longer working with old method?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:30:12 -0500
> > About a week ago, the `gnupload' script (from gnulib) worked just
> > fine. Right now I get error messages like this
> >
> > no filename directive specified
