Hello Ole, Russ, * Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:11PM CEST: > Ole Tange writes: > > $ cat src/Makefile.am > > dist_bin_SCRIPTS = parallel > > man_MANS = parallel.1 > > > parallel.1: parallel > > pod2man --release='$(PACKAGE_VERSION)' --center='$(PACKAGE_NAME)' \ > > --section=1 parallel > parallel.1
The rule command lines must be indented with a leading TAB. > > CLEANFILES = parallel.1 Commonly, the rule is that 'make clean' cleans the stuff made by 'make' but your tarball will contain parallel.1 already (which I think is a good idea, because then your users won't need pod2man installed); you could put it into MAINTAINERCLEANFILES or DISTCLEANFILES instead. [...] > > When running: > > > autoreconf --install -W gnu; ./configure ; make > > > the manpage is not made. Doing > > > cd src > > make parallel.1 > > > does not make the man page either. > > Hurm. I could have sworn that the man_MANS target was automatically > built. It is. > Also, if make install knows to install the man page, make should > automatically attempt to build it as well, That also is true. > so I'm confused as to why that wouldn't happen. Hope this clears all confusion. Cheers, Ralf
