Re: `missing' fixlet

[Paul Eggert]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> The automake HACKING file mentions that the `missing' script isn't
> maintained in automake.  I haven't been following along, so I don't
> know where it is maintained (and HACKING doesn't say -- a buglet).

Thanks.  gnulib and Autoconf both get 'missing' from Automake.  So,
unless I'm out-to-lunch, the bug in Automake's HACKING is that HACKING
shouldn't list 'missing' as a file maintained elsewhere.  Also, your
change (enclosed below) should be checked into Automake so that the
other programs will pick it up.

I'll let other Automake experts comment before doing this, though --
perhaps they know where 'missing' came from.

(Doesn't anybody want to give 'missing' a home?  ....)


> Here's a patch that came up on the gcc list.  Could someone please put
> it in the appropriate place?  Thanks.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Index: lib/missing
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/lib/missing,v
> retrieving revision 1.21
> diff -u -r1.21 missing
> --- lib/missing 19 Apr 2002 20:55:59 -0000 1.21
> +++ lib/missing 20 Jul 2003 17:07:41 -0000
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  #! /bin/sh
>  # Common stub for a few missing GNU programs while installing.
> -# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> +# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
> +# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  # Originally by Fran,cois Pinard <address@hidden>, 1996.
>  
>  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> @@ -165,7 +166,7 @@
>  WARNING: \`$1' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
>           system.  You might have modified some files without having the
>           proper tools for further handling them.
> -         You can get \`$1Help2man' as part of \`Autoconf' from any GNU
> +         You can get \`$1' as part of \`Autoconf' from any GNU
>           archive site."
>  
>      file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*--output[ =]*\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`