Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#530 closed task (fixed)

missing help2man has changed semantics

Reported by: Peter Johansson Owned by: Jari Häkkinen
Priority: trivial Milestone: svndigest 0.10.3
Component: build Version: 0.10.2
Keywords: Cc:

Description

missing has changed behaviour in this commit

​http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/lib/missing?id=a22717dffe37f30ef2ad2c355b68c9b3b5e4b8c7

which means that at least automake 1.13 has this behaviour. In short it means that make will fail if help2man is not available, which is not what we want. We want to be able to build svndigest with no help2man but that in that case 'make dist' or at least 'make distcheck' should fail.

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by Peter Johansson

ticket #531 was marked as related

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

(In [1591]) Addresses #530. Allow build of svndigest but fail for 'make dist'.

comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

(In [1592]) Addresses #530. Test for help2man should be independent of svn working copy existence. Improved help2man/man pages creation logic.

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

Resolution: fixed
Status: closed → reopened

The solution is no good since the make rules will delete man pages when users with missing help2man try to build a downloaded package.

comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

Owner: changed from Peter Johansson to Jari Häkkinen
Status: reopened → new

comment:7 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

Status: new → assigned

comment:8 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

(In [1594]) Addresses #530. man pages are not removed but 'make dist' is forcefully stopped if no help2man was found during configure.

comment:9 Changed 7 years ago by Jari Häkkinen

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed
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