[Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/1] Do not track the man pages.

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Mon Apr 28 05:09:22 PDT 2008


Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/3/8, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>:
>> Yes, but I don't have docbook2man everywhere. The Makefile should be
>>  conditional on whether I have it so I don't bomb my build on the man
>>  pages. Something like:
>>
>>  configure.ac
>>  ...
>>  AC_PATH_PROG(DOCBOOK2MAN, docbook2man, no)
>>  AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_DB2MAN, test "x$DOCBOOK2MAN" != xno)
>>  ...
>>
>>  and then surround the man_MANS in Makefile.am with "if HAVE_DB2MAN".
>>
> 
> The problem with that is, that the one, creating the official dist
> tarballs, could miss to include the man pages.

Then just kill "make dist" if it is not there but not a plain make. I just had
to download and install 500MB of stuff, just to be able to do a test build.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
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