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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Build man pages in $(srcdir).
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:28:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u1ef98b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458404286-10448-1-git-send-email-mthl@gnu.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:18:02 +0100")

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:

> Anyway, inspired by what is done by Automake for info manuals I have tried to
> build man pages in $(srcdir), which is fixing the issue too.  The bonus is
> that now all the documentation is consistently built in $(srcdir) and that we
> avoid adding another "case $? ..." trick.

This sounds reasonable (in fact I wonder why we were not doing it
already given that things are supposed to live in $(srcdir)).

Did you confirm that ‘make distcheck’ passes after that, and that
‘help2man’ is not invoked when building from a tarball?

Thank you!

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-19 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-19 16:18 [PATCH 0/4] Build man pages in $(srcdir) Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-19 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] Revert "build: Do not remake doc/guix.1." Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-19 21:29   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 16:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] build: Make 'guix' man page depend on scripts/guix.in Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-19 21:31   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] build: Build man pages in $(srcdir) Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-19 21:31   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 16:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] build: Rewrite comments for man pages Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-19 21:32   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 21:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-03-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 0/4] Build man pages in $(srcdir) Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 22:50   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-20 21:09     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-20 23:03       ` Mathieu Lirzin

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