Re: Error running help2man on aclocal-1.13.1

2013-01-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-01-09 22:27, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> >> Now I just have to figure out why someone thought that openSUSE >> should create the manpages directly... >> >Good question > >What happens if you do this instead? > >help2man -S FSF ./t/wr

Re: Error running help2man on aclocal-1.13.1

2013-01-09 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/09/2013 10:13 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2013-01-09 19:11, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> On 01/09/2013 05:05 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>> The >>> >>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./aclocal >>

Re: Error running help2man on aclocal-1.13.1

2013-01-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-01-09 19:11, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >On 01/09/2013 05:05 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> The >> >> help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./aclocal >> >> error seems to have reappeared in automake-1.13.1 (judging fr

Re: Error running help2man on aclocal-1.13.1

2013-01-09 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/09/2013 05:05 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > The > > help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./aclocal > > error seems to have reappeared in automake-1.13.1 (judging from > http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/Man-pages-for-automake-and-aclocal-td1

Error running help2man on aclocal-1.13.1

2013-01-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
The help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./aclocal error seems to have reappeared in automake-1.13.1 (judging from http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/Man-pages-for-automake-and-aclocal-td11966.html) help2man is of version 1.40.12. --- Executing(%build): /bin/sh -

Re: Help2man and Parallel Make Race

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Johansson
ould always be regenerated when the binaries are built and the cross-compiled binaries would not run on the build machine. We decided we didn't wanted to ship (or require help2man), so when we converted to non-recursive Makefile, we solved this problem by added dependency foo.1: foo$(EXEEXT) but

Re: Help2man and Parallel Make Race

2012-11-19 Thread Neil T . Dantam
e. > Assuming GNU make, a good solution would be to use order-only > dependencies: > > foo.1: foo.c | foo$(EXEEXT) >help2man ... > > The above ensures that foo$(EXEEXT) is built before foo.1, but doesn't > cause foo.1 to be rebuilt just because foo$(EXEEX

Re: Help2man and Parallel Make Race

2012-11-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/19/2012 08:55 PM, Neil T. Dantam wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using help2man to build manpages that I'd like to distribute with > the source tarball. I followed the instructions/example in the > automake manual, which has manpage foo.1 depend on foo.c and > conf

Help2man and Parallel Make Race

2012-11-19 Thread Neil T . Dantam
Hi, I'm using help2man to build manpages that I'd like to distribute with the source tarball. I followed the instructions/example in the automake manual, which has manpage foo.1 depend on foo.c and configure.ac, then does a recursive make to build foo$(EXEEXT): <http://www.gnu

Re: help2man rule with non-recursive Makefile

2012-09-30 Thread Peter Johansson
On 9/30/12 8:27 PM, Peter Johansson wrote: Any thoughts? I should read the manual before making noise. Sorry. http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Errors-with-distclean -- Peter Johansson

help2man rule with non-recursive Makefile

2012-09-30 Thread Peter Johansson
_deps=$(top_srcdir)/configure $(srcdir)/Makefile.in \ $(srcdir)/man/svndigest.x $(top_srcdir)/.revision $(srcdir)/man/svndigest.1: $(man_deps) @$(HELP2MAN) --no-info -o $@ \ --include $(srcdir)/man/svndigest.x \ --version-option="--no-verbose --version" \ $(top_builddir

Re: missing help2man

2008-11-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
For > > instance, in GNU Hello (well, except that has only one man page) or > > coreutils. > > Well, if `make' called by the user has to generate man pages with the > use of help2man, there *must* be a configure check for it. I don't > see a problem. The poin

Re: help2man

2006-02-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
.ac $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS)cgdb/src/cgdb$(EXEEXT) help2man ... See http://sourceware.org/automake/automake.html#distcleancheck Have a nice day, Stepan

Re: help2man

2006-02-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:54:20PM CET: > > > If you instead ever go to use a nonrecursive Makefile structure, you > > could just add `../cgdb/src/cgdb$(EXEEXT)' to the prerequisites of this > > rule. Much nicer. ;-) > > Recall that cgdb.1 was listed in dist_man

Re: help2man

2006-02-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:35:24PM CET: > * Bob Rossi wrote on Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:54:09PM CET: > > > > > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) -C $(top_builddir)/cgdb/src cgdb$(EXEEXT) > > `make -C' is not totally portable; I'd write > > cd ../cgdb/src && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAK

Re: help2man

2006-02-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Rossi wrote on Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:54:09PM CET: > > > cgdb.1: $(top_srcdir)/cgdb/src/usage.c $(top_srcdir)/configure.in > > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) -C $(top_builddir)/cgdb/src cgdb$(EXEEXT) `make -C' is not totally portable; I'd write cd ../cgdb/src && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS

Re: help2man

2006-02-06 Thread Bob Rossi
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:39:44AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > > dist_man_MANS = cgdb.1 > > # Autogenerate the man page using help2man. This happens whenever the > > # user modifies either configure.in or usage.c, which contains CGDB's > > usage. > >

Re: help2man

2006-02-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:39:44AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > dist_man_MANS = cgdb.1 > # Autogenerate the man page using help2man. This happens whenever the > # user modifies either configure.in or usage.c, which contains CGDB's usage. > cgdb.1: $(top_srcdir)

Re: help2man & help2texi??

2006-02-05 Thread Bruce Korb
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Harlan. The question unanswered, tho, is, "Why bother?" Just so this can be documented, this did work for me. dist_man_MANS = cgdb.1 # Autogenerate the man page using help2man. This happens whenever the # user modifies either configure.in

Re: help2man

2006-02-05 Thread Bob Rossi
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:53:28AM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "BR" == Bob Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BR> My doc directory is built after all others. I was thinking I could have > BR> a rule in the doc directory that would

Re: help2man

2006-02-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
I'll suggest GNU AutoGen as another way to deal with help text -> man pages. H

Re: help2man

2006-02-04 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "BR" == Bob Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> My doc directory is built after all others. I was thinking I could have BR> a rule in the doc directory that would run help2man if usage.c has BR> changed. However, if usage.c was changed, by this point,

help2man

2006-02-04 Thread Bob Rossi
Hi all, This is my first attempt at modifying the Makefile.am, to have some extra work done for me automatically. I've been working on my documentation for CGDB lately, and found a nifty program called help2man which generates a simple man page. It looks at the output of both 'cgdb

RFC: better integration with help2man

2003-11-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Alexandre et al., automake supports the installation manual pages. Man pages for programs are nowadays frequently generated through GNU help2man, documenting the command line options but leaving the rest to the doc in texinfo format. Here's a suggestion for rules that would support

Re: help2man

2000-05-12 Thread Akim Demaille
Could someone apply this patch?

Re: help2man

2000-05-09 Thread Akim Demaille
.[ch]', if possible, from existing .[ch] flex create \`lex.yy.c', if possible, from existing .c + help2man touch the output file lex create \`lex.yy.c', if possible, from existing .c makeinfo touch the output file yacc create \`y.tab