Re: PATCH: remove config.{guess,sub} man pages

[Pavel Raiskup]

Hi Ben,

On Wednesday 25 of November 2015 21:09:39 Ben Elliston wrote:
> Remove config.{guess,sub} man pages. These are now kept in the master
> source tree for config.{guess,sub}.

after this patch -- the manual pages are not installed with autoconf
anymore (I tried 'make install').  Is that expected?  If yes, how are the
manual pages supposed to be installed?

Thanks, Pavel

> ---
>  man/config.guess.x | 24 ------------------------
>  man/config.sub.x   |  4 ----
>  man/local.mk       |  8 +-------
>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 35 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 man/config.guess.x
>  delete mode 100644 man/config.sub.x
> 
> diff --git a/man/config.guess.x b/man/config.guess.x
> deleted file mode 100644
> index ce23430..0000000
> --- a/man/config.guess.x
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
> ---no-info
> -
> -[name]
> -config.guess \- guess the build system triplet
> -
> -[Environment variables]
> -config.guess might need to compile and run C code, hence it needs a
> -compiler for the `build' machine: use the environment variable
> -`CC_FOR_BUILD' to specify the compiler for the build machine.  If
> -`CC_FOR_BUILD' is not specified, `CC' will be used.  Be sure to
> -specify `CC_FOR_BUILD' is `CC' is a cross-compiler to the `host'
> -machine.
> -
> -  CC_FOR_BUILD    a native C compiler, defaults to `cc'
> -  CC              a native C compiler, the previous variable is preferred
> -
> -[description]
> -The GNU build system distinguishes three types of machines, the
> -`build' machine on which the compilers are run, the `host' machine
> -on which the package being built will run, and, exclusively when you
> -build a compiler, assembler etc., the `target' machine, for which the
> -compiler being built will produce code.
> -
> -This script will guess the type of the `build' machine.
> diff --git a/man/config.sub.x b/man/config.sub.x
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 294cfbe..0000000
> --- a/man/config.sub.x
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
> ---no-info
> -
> -[name]
> -config.sub \- validate and canonicalize a configuration triplet
> diff --git a/man/local.mk b/man/local.mk
> index a9c247a..2767d14 100644
> --- a/man/local.mk
> +++ b/man/local.mk
> @@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ dist_man_MANS = \
>    $(mansrcdir)/autoreconf.1 \
>    $(mansrcdir)/autoscan.1 \
>    $(mansrcdir)/autoupdate.1 \
> -  $(mansrcdir)/ifnames.1 \
> -  $(mansrcdir)/config.guess.1 \
> -  $(mansrcdir)/config.sub.1
> +  $(mansrcdir)/ifnames.1
>  
>  EXTRA_DIST += $(dist_man_MANS:.1=.x) man/common.x
>  MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += $(dist_man_MANS)
> @@ -42,10 +40,6 @@ $(mansrcdir)/autoscan.1:   $(common_dep) 
> $(binsrcdir)/autoscan.in
>  $(mansrcdir)/autoupdate.1: $(common_dep) $(binsrcdir)/autoupdate.in
>  $(mansrcdir)/ifnames.1:    $(common_dep) $(binsrcdir)/ifnames.in
>  
> -# Independent from this package.
> -$(mansrcdir)/config.guess.1: $(srcdir)/build-aux/config.guess
> -$(mansrcdir)/config.sub.1:   $(srcdir)/build-aux/config.sub
> -
>  remove_time_stamp = 's/^\(\.TH[^"]*"[^"]*"[^"]*\)"[^"]*"/\1/'
>  
>  MOSTLYCLEANFILES += $(srcdir)/man/*.t
>