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| author | Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org> | 2010-09-25 04:18:04 +0700 |
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| committer | Gary V. Vaughan <gary@vaughan.pe> | 2011-08-15 05:25:37 +0700 |
| commit | 27b3a20a7e3a0157b5109383ba6ff2cc16287358 (patch) | |
| tree | 55b6d60c60610ab30d4e2cc315c4c8b9a7e64e53 | |
| parent | c07adbf8068cb029c06afe0fb64c4fc81e8b71fb (diff) | |
| download | libtool-next.tar.gz | |
maint: don't run help2man on programs not-yet-built.libtool-next
* Makefile.am (doc/libtool.1, doc/libtoolize.1): Added a
comment about why the dependencies here have to be a mite
bizarre.
(distcheck): Added a workaround for the bug described.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 11 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2010-09-01 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org> + + maint: don't run help2man on programs not-yet-built. + * Makefile.am (doc/libtool.1, doc/libtoolize.1): Added a + comment about why the dependencies here have to be a mite + bizarre. + (distcheck): Added a workaround for the bug described. + 2010-09-26 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org> tests: remove unused `aux_dir' variable from `getopt-m4sh.test'. diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index f06eb844..0ad4de3c 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -394,10 +394,21 @@ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += $(dist_man1_MANS) update_mans = \ PATH=.$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$PATH; export PATH; \ $(HELP2MAN) --output='$@' + +# It's wrong to make distributed files (e.g. $(libtool_1)) rely on +# files created in the build tree, so instead we regenerate the +# manual pages if the sources for the build-tree files we want to +# run have changed. $(libtool_1): $(ltmain_sh) $(update_mans) --help-option=--help-all libtool $(libtoolize_1): $(libtoolize_in) $(update_mans) libtoolize +# That doesn't solve the problem of having `make' try to create +# manual pages before the commands have been built, for example +# with automake-1.11.1, `make distcheck' in a freshly checked out +# and configured tree will fail. The workaround is to make sure +# `make check' is always called first: +distcheck: all ## ------------- ## |