Hello Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:29:44PM CEST: > On 23 Sep 2010, at 00:35, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:05:48PM CEST: > >> * Makefile.am (doc/libtool.1, doc/libtoolize.1): Don't rely on > >> the intermediate files, since they might have changed without > >> giving make the opportunity to update the actual binaries that > >> help2man calls in time. > > > > No, because 'libtool' is created in the build tree, and the manpages are > > distributed. Distributed files may not depend on undistributed files, > > as that breaks building from a read-only source tree. Moreover, > > help2man is something the user is expected to not have to install prior > > to building Libtool. > > Yuck. Another reason to always start afresh after making changes > rather than relying on make to DTRT :( > > In my case, ltmain.sh was corrupted, but even though I fixed it, > rerunning make ended up leaving the empty manpages generated by > a libtool script that had no --version output, and *then* it > proceeded to rebuild ltmain.sh.
I can try to debug it, if you can show me how to reliably reproduce the failure. > Is there no way to make sure help2man doesn't run until the > programs it wants to call have been rebuilt, rather than building > (and potentially distributing) manpages documenting options from the > previous script? I outlined four separate possible approaches for this in another mail in this thread already. Cheers, Ralf
