Re: bug#11793: AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 06/28/2012 12:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/26/2012 04:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: AM_MISSING_PROG has been around for a while (git log says it was introduced in 1997, although the current two-argument version appears to date back to commit 9ae48df in Nov 1999), and seems like

Re: bug#11793: AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/26/2012 04:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: AM_MISSING_PROG has been around for a while (git log says it was introduced in 1997, although the current two-argument version appears to date back to commit 9ae48df in Nov 1999), and seems like something stable enough to be worth guaranteeing.

AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-automake, to turn into a formal bug] On 06/26/2012 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote: And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I noticed that coreutils uses this via a .m4 file included into its configure.ac: AM_MISSING_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man) which is roughly

Re: AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-autoconf, for an autoconf documentation issue] On 06/26/2012 11:46 AM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding bug-automake, to turn into a formal bug] On 06/26/2012 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote: And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I noticed that coreutils uses this via a

Re: bug#11793: AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 11793 + wishlist thanks On 06/26/2012 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote: And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I noticed that coreutils uses this via a .m4 file included into its configure.ac: AM_MISSING_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man) which is roughly supposed to set $(HELP2MAN)

Re: bug#11793: AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 06/26/2012 09:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding bug-autoconf, for an autoconf documentation issue] On 06/26/2012 11:46 AM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding bug-automake, to turn into a formal bug] On 06/26/2012 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote: And while looking into how M4 differs from coreutils, I