Re: [PATCH 0/4] Build man pages in $(srcdir).

[Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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)).

Why were you expecting such thing?

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

I can't confirm for ‘make distcheck’ right now, because of:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'http://hydra.gnu.org'...  33.3%
4 packages are not substitutable:
  /gnu/store/5apc4w376ls7fhydg08plc20agry7pn4-emacs-24.5
  /gnu/store/zfxj52lh6h6q7jmb1w2s34h004zsbaw3-emacs-24.5
  /gnu/store/10qcwd0gxypm977ksbvhjrpa4m1xk334-emacs-24.5
  /gnu/store/r8xphs9ka0lwmwhzxv6mfs9j8nm91843-emacs-24.5

Makefile:4913 : la recette pour la cible « assert-binaries-available » a échouée
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

However I have manually checked that with 'make dist' + (regular build or
VPATH build) 'help2man' is not invoked.

> Also, do these changes preserve the benefits of
> 36629097523b0abd89d1b931293150cb9c1f242d (“build: Generate man pages
> after compiling Guile objects.”)?

Yes it is.  That would be unacceptable if not.  ;)

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Mathieu Lirzin