> Anyway, maintainer-mode isn't very interesting; few packages use it. > The more important question is what to do in non-maintainer mode, > where (it seems to me) exactly the same problem will occur. 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.
Werner
