Re: Autoconf fails to install without help2man

[Mo DeJong]

On 28 Apr 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

 
> I don't think your patch is right: you are hiding a problem.  I think
> `missing' should not exit 0 when it doesn't know what to do, but

Ok, I will debate this. The script does print "WARNING:" not
"ERROR : I dont know what to do". I would think that a warning
should return 0 in all cases.

> I suppose this is debatable.
> 
> IMHO the right patch is to teach `help2man' to `missing'.  It does
> need to know a lot about it, the most important being --output.  Then
> missing shall just `touch' the output file.

Are you saying that this "missing" script is actually part of
the automake dist? So I would need to find it and submit
patches to that project?

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc.
 
> If you want to give it a try, you probably should do that with the
> `missing' which is in CVS Automake.  Autoconf will import it then.
> 
>         Akim