Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 09:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Sounds good.  I.e., it sounds like we want Stefano's patch, after all.
>>
>> As you recall, a nice side effect is that we will
>> no longer distribute the generated man/*.1 files.
>
> Well if we don't distribute the .1 files,
> wouldn't perl would be a hard requirement?

Oh, you're right.  Oh well...

> It might be better to insert a warning like:
>   "warning perl unavailable: this manpage may be out of date"
> at the bottom of man pages but only for source files

That sounds good, being careful to insert it only once per file.