I like Brendan's patch, appended here for convenience. It was sent to
Autoconf@.
Akim
--- missing.orig Thu May 4 22:23:50 2000
+++ missing Thu May 4 22:21:48 2000
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
automake touch all \`Makefile.in' files
bison create \`y.tab.[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.[ch]', if possible, from existing .[ch]"
@@ -156,6 +157,26 @@
fi
if [ ! -f lex.yy.c ]; then
echo 'main() { return 0; }' >lex.yy.c
+ fi
+ ;;
+
+ help2man)
+ echo 1>&2 "\
+WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
+ you modified a dependancy of a manual page. You may need the
+ \`Help2man' package in order for those modifications to take
+ effect. You can get \`Help2man' from any GNU archive site."
+
+ file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*-o \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`
+ if test -z "$file"; then
+ file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*--output=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`
+ fi
+ if [ -f "$file" ]; then
+ touch $file
+ else
+ test -z "$file" || exec >$file
+ echo ".ab help2man is required to generate this page"
+ exit 1
fi
;;
