Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am wanting to use help2man to produce the man page for a program. I > have a Makefile.am with the following. > > dist_man_MANS = example.8 > > example.8: src/example > help2man --output=example.8 ./src/example
Do you distribute example.8? If not, add it to the DISTCLEANFILES, if so, then there is a magic macro/make variable that contains a "find" command. Augment that find command to ignore remaining files that were also distributed. (Do this with a line: whateverthelongnamewas = find .... -exec ....
