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

[Michael Biebl]

2008/3/8, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  Shouldn't we add a configure check for docbook2man then? On the other
>  >  hand, as we distribute the man pages in the dist tarball, docbook2man
>  >  is not strictly necessary either.
>
>
> 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.

With the current solution, only developers using the git clone, will
have to have docbook2man installed. Users who download the final
tarballs don't.
I think that's a fair compromise.

Cheers,
Michael

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