Re: sharutils 4.7: compress-dummy.1 is empty

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Bruce Korb wrote:
> $ find ../sharutils-bld/ -name '*.1'
> ../sharutils-bld/doc/uuencode.1
> ../sharutils-bld/doc/shar.1
> ../sharutils-bld/doc/unshar.1
> 
> I "find" that it doesn't exist at all.

Well, try this:

$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/REL-4.7/sharutils-4.7.tar.gz
$ tar ztvf sharutils-4.7.tar.gz sharutils-4.7/doc/compress-dummy.1
-rw-r--r-- 501/501           0 2007-07-01 13:54 
sharutils-4.7/doc/compress-dummy.1

and also this, which is basically how I found it:

$ tar xzf  sharutils-4.7.tar.gz
$ cd sharutils-4.7
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr
$ ls -l debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/compress-dummy.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 sanvila sanvila 0 ago 30 18:15 
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/compress-dummy.1

and also, from ChangeLog:

        * bootstrap: add code to derive compress-dummy.1 from the script.

> Why would you even want a man page for something so vacuous?

I could ask the same thing myself :-), but I'm just a packager. My job
here is basically to make a .deb package from the files generated by
the above "make install".

Note: sharutils 4.6.3 had a non-empty compress-dummy.1, that's why I
ask about it.

Hope this helps.