Re: Implementing notrans_man_MANS

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Having one test is fine, and it looks good, too.
>
> I suppose we might want to change the MANS line and the install-manX
> rules to be flattened, they already look pretty ugly in the Makefile.
> But that can happen in a followup patch.

Hello Ralf,

I guess that could mean a rule starting with
        install-man6: dist_man_MANS man_MANS nodist_man_MANS
                        notrans_dist_man_MANS notrans_man_MANS \
                        notrans_nodist_man_MANS notrans_nodist_man_MANS

If so, that would make
        grep '^install-man6:' Makefile.in | grep '\$(notrans_nodist_man_MANS)'
in the present notrans.test FAIL.

Maybe it would then be better that the notrans.test script creates none of
the files and have them all created by make rules. (At one time I was not
sure if Automake complains if some of these files are missing.)

To really test these dependencies one could even do:
        rm -f foo.1 z-baz.man
        $MAKE install-man1
        rm -f bar.2 z-bar.man
        $MAKE install-man2
and so on.

Regards,
Peter