On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > The files man/*.1 are included in the tarballs. By the GNU Coding Standards > <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Basics.html> > they should be generated in the source directory. > > But this is not what happens: > > $ ./configure; make -k maintainer-clean > $ ./bootstrap > $ mkdir bb > $ cd bb > $ ../configure > $ make > $ ls -l ../man/*.1 > ls: cannot access '../man/*.1': No such file or directory > $ ls -l man/*.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2245 21. Jul 21:12 man/cmp.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6469 21. Jul 21:12 man/diff.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2858 21. Jul 21:12 man/diff3.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2869 21. Jul 21:12 man/sdiff.1 > > This patch fixes it. > > With it, the result is: > > $ ls -l ../man/*.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2245 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/cmp.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6469 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/diff.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2858 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/diff3.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2869 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/sdiff.1 > $ ls -l man/*.1 > ls: cannot access 'man/*.1': No such file or directory
Thank you for reporting and fixing that. I've applied your patch with one small change: replace a sequence of TAB-then-8-spaces used for Makefile indentation with TAB-TAB, to avoid "make distcheck" failure.
