Re: shishi-0.0.12: "missing" script fails with help2man

[Simon Josefsson]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Simon> Adrian Bunk <address@hidden> writes:
>  >> Hi,
>  >> 
>  >> I'm not sure whether the following build error is a bug in shishi or in
>  >> the "missing" script:
>  Simon> ...
>  >> /bin/sh /aux/adrian/build/shishi-0.0.12/missing --run help2man \
>  >> --name="kerberos 5 database interface" \
>  >> --info-page=shishi \
>  >> --output=shisa.1 ../src/shisa
>  >> Unknown option: i
>  Simon> ...
>  >> shishi-0.0.12 uses the "missing" script from automake 1.8.
>  >> 
>  >> GNU help2man 1.24 is installed.
>
>  Simon> Hello, and thanks for the report.  I'm using help2man 1.33, and most
>  Simon> likely the cause for the error is that 1.24 is too old.
>
>  Simon> But the consequence of the problem should, IMHO, be
>  Simon> mitigated by automake/missing -- the man page is after
>  Simon> all included in the shishi tar.gz.
>
> If the problem occurred during a user build of shishi (by user
> build I mean that no distributed files has been altered) then
> the Makefile probably needs to be fixed.  Indeed, since the man
> page is distributed, Makefile rules should be arranged so that
> it is not rebuilt during a user build.  This kind of error is
> usually caught by `make distcheck' and is discussed in the FAQ.
>
> If the problem occurred during after some modification of the
> distributed files, then obviously the above paragraph does not
> apply.  It's just unclear to me which case we are in.

You are right, the Makefile.am looked like:

shishi.1: $(top_srcdir)/src/shishi.c $(top_builddir)/src/shishi

I have now fixed it to say:

shishi.1: $(top_srcdir)/src/shishi.c $(top_srcdir)/src/shishi.ggo

Hopefully this will solve this problem.  Sorry for taking up your
time.

Adrian, please verify that shishi 0.0.13, when it is available, does
not have this problem.