[PATCH] man: Fix typo and use $() for make expressions

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 18 08:01:59 PST 2013


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:00 PM, David Herrmann
<dh.herrmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thierry
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:
>> Due to the typo, none of the .xml files would end up in the release
>> tarball and cause make distcheck as well as builds from the tarball to
>> fail.
>>
>> Using $() isn't strictly necessary but other variables and expressions
>> use that variant already so it makes the usage consistent.
>
> That's weird. "make distcheck" should not be able to build the
> manpages if the XML files are not available. Also ${} is pretty
> standard in makefiles, isn't it? I wonder what the problem here is. At
> least distcheck runs fine on my machine.

Ah sorry, I now saw the "subs" => "subst" typo. Still I wonder why
distcheck works here. But the patch looks fine. Thanks!

> Regards
> David


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