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Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time |
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Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:24:24 +0200 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 09:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Sounds good. I.e., it sounds like we want Stefano's patch, after all.
>>
>> As you recall, a nice side effect is that we will
>> no longer distribute the generated man/*.1 files.
>
> Well if we don't distribute the .1 files,
> wouldn't perl would be a hard requirement?
Oh, you're right. Oh well...
> It might be better to insert a warning like:
> "warning perl unavailable: this manpage may be out of date"
> at the bottom of man pages but only for source files
That sounds good, being careful to insert it only once per file.
- Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/25
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Bernhard Voelker, 2012/10/25
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/25
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Bernhard Voelker, 2012/10/25
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/26
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/26
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Pádraig Brady, 2012/10/26
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Jim Meyering, 2012/10/26
- Re: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Pádraig Brady, 2012/10/26
- Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time, Pádraig Brady, 2012/10/24
- Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time,
Jim Meyering <=