On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:45:54 Michal Marek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 09 March 2009 14:48:59 Michal Marek wrote: > > > @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ AC_PROG_CC > > > AC_CHECK_PROGS(DOCBOOKTOMAN, docbook-to-man docbook2man, [no],) > > > if test x"$DOCBOOKTOMAN" = xno > > > then > > > - AC_MSG_ERROR([docbook2man not found]) > > > + AC_MSG_WARN([docbook2man not found]) > > > + # fail with a meaningfull error if $DOCBOOKTOMAN called by the > > > makefile + DOCBOOKTOMAN=docbook2man > > > fi > > > > better to use the missing script from automake > > OK, updated patch attached > > Subject: [PATCH] Don't abort the build if docbook2man is missing > > Instead of aborting the build, print a warning if neither > docbook2man nor docbook-to-man is found. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]> > --- > configure.ac | 4 +++- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac > index 9f09102..7b860b1 100644 > --- a/configure.ac > +++ b/configure.ac > @@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ AC_PROG_CC > AC_CHECK_PROGS(DOCBOOKTOMAN, docbook-to-man docbook2man, [no],) > if test x"$DOCBOOKTOMAN" = xno > then > - AC_MSG_ERROR([docbook2man not found]) > + AC_MSG_WARN([docbook2man not found]) > + # fail with a meaningfull error if $DOCBOOKTOMAN called by the makefile
dont know if Jon cares, but some people prefer dnl for comments since the
literal comment moved to configure is useless ...
> + DOCBOOKTOMAN='${top_srcdir}/missing docbook2man'
> fi
awesome, thanks ... i just wonder now if the /dev/null redirect that exists in
the Makefile will prevent the pretty message from being displayed ?
-mike
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