Re: AM_MISSING_PROG

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Reuben,

* Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:19:10PM CET:
> what's the status of this macro?

It is still not documented.  It is not deprecated either, but as the
'missing' script is not easily extensible by the user, the situations
where AM_MISSING_PROG is helpful for the user are rather limited.

> With a quick google I can find a 
> discussion about documenting it, and apparently a commit of a patch to 
> document it, in November 2007, but I can't find any evidence of its ever 
> having been committed in the git repo.

Yes.

> I ask because I found a use of AM_MISSING_PROG in an example in the  
> documentation for help2man. If AM_MISSING_PROG is deprecated, as the lack 
> of documentation suggests, I imagine that help2man should not suggest its 
> use...

It's ok to use it with help2man; 'missing' has code for this.

Cheers,
Ralf