Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > While fixing the previous bug I noticed that the build process > modifies msgfmt.1. This is because we modify msgfmt so that it always > output little endian. > > But I don't really want msgfmt.1 to be modified just because of this. > > In the past I used to insert a suitable "touch" command somewhere in > debian/rules so that msgfmt.1 was not considered "outdated". Is there > any better way?
A possible idea is to compare the output of help2man with the existing one, and don't overwrite it if they are identical (except the date), in a similar way to the msgmerge call in po/Makefile.in.in. I personally feel it as a bit over-engineering, though. > Should help2man be really part of the gettext source tarball? I would > think that it is on the same level as automake or autoconf. I don't know, but some other projects (e.g. coreutils) also ships a copy of help2man for some reasons. Regards, -- Daiki Ueno
