Hello Bob, thank you for the reply.
> > Building outside source tree directory fails > > perl help2man --name="Friendly Greeting Program" ../src/hello >hello.1 > > Can't open perl script "help2man": No such file or directory > > ... > > The directive (in man/Makefile.am) obviously cannot work this way > > hello.1: ../src/hello $(HELP2MAN) > > $(PERL) $(HELP2MAN) --name="Friendly Greeting Program" ../src/hello >$@ Changing man/Makefile.am (hello-2.1.1) from hello.1: ../src/hello $(HELP2MAN) $(PERL) $(HELP2MAN) --name="Friendly Greeting Program" ../src/hello >$@ to hello.1: ../src/hello $(HELP2MAN) $(PERL) $(srcdir)/$(HELP2MAN) --name="Friendly Greeting Program" ../src/hello >$@ did the trick. As matter of fact, '$(srcdir)' was the variable I was looking for. I am scrutinising GNU Hello because I want to use it as a raw model for my own project that follows the GNU style. regards, René _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hello
