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Re: [PATCH 06/13] build: Generate man pages after compiling guile object


From: Eric Bavier
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] build: Generate man pages after compiling guile objects.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:27:33 -0600

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:00:35 +0100
Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:

> OTOH I must admit that for maintainability reasons I would prefer
> avoiding complexity in Makefiles as much as possible.  This means
> using Automake's abstract concepts as much as possible, having a
> simple dependency graph on top of that, and put things that don't fit
> well in this scheme in individual "build-aux/" scripts.  For that
> reason I still prefer the embed help2man solution.  but otherwise it
> looks nice.  :)

I sympathize with the concerns for maintainability.  In this case, it
seems to me that a few lines of make/shell would be preferable to 20k
lines of perl.  Perhaps the simpler attached patch is better?

`~Eric

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