invocation form rather than open-coding a call to 'missing'.
> In particular, the Autoconf manual would love to recommend this macro
> when discussing how to integrate an autotest suite with automake.
>
> * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG.
>
On 06/28/2012 12:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/26/2012 04:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>
>>>> AM_MISSING_PROG has been around for a while (git log says it was
>>>> introduced in 1997, although the current two-argument version appears to
>>>> dat
On 06/26/2012 04:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> AM_MISSING_PROG has been around for a while (git log says it was
>>> introduced in 1997, although the current two-argument version appears to
>>> date back to commit 9ae48df in Nov 1999), and seems like something
&g
ng'.
> In particular, the Autoconf manual would love to recommend this macro
> when discussing how to integrate an autotest suite with automake.
>
> * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG.
> ---
Forgot to mention - this is intended for maint, to be followed by a
to integrate an autotest suite with automake.
* doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG.
---
doc/automake.texi | 10 ++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 059241d..20af53e 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++
And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I noticed that
>>> coreutils uses this via a .m4 file included into its configure.ac:
>>>
>>> AM_MISSING_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man)
>>>
>>> which is roughly supposed to set $(HELP2MAN) to 'path/t
tags 11793 + wishlist
thanks
> On 06/26/2012 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I noticed that
>> coreutils uses this via a .m4 file included into its configure.ac:
>>
>> AM_MISSING_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man)
>
> coreutils uses this via a .m4 file included into its configure.ac:
>>
>> AM_MISSING_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man)
>>
>> which is roughly supposed to set $(HELP2MAN) to 'path/to/missing [--run]
>> help2man', depending on the version of automake used, without
[adding bug-automake, to turn into a formal bug]
On 06/26/2012 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I noticed that
> coreutils uses this via a .m4 file included into its configure.ac:
>
> AM_MISSING_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man)
>
>
the situations
where AM_MISSING_PROG is helpful for the user are rather limited.
With a quick google I can find a
discussion about documenting it, and apparently a commit of a patch to
document it, in November 2007, but I can't find any evidence of its ever
having been committed in the g
Hello Reuben,
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:19:10PM CET:
> what's the status of this macro?
It is still not documented. It is not deprecated either, but as the
'missing' script is not easily extensible by the user, the situations
where AM_MISSING_PROG is he
d a use of AM_MISSING_PROG in an example in the
documentation for help2man. If AM_MISSING_PROG is deprecated, as the lack of
documentation suggests, I imagine that help2man should not suggest its
use...
--
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Quoting automake/m4/missing.m4:
| # AM_MISSING_PROG(NAME, PROGRAM)
| # --
| AC_DEFUN([AM_MISSING_PROG],
| [AC_REQUIRE([AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN])
| $1=${$1-"${am_missing_run}$2"}
| AC_SUBST($1)])
This leads to lines like
| ACLOCAL=${ACLOCAL-"${am_miss
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