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generate programs' man pages in the source directory, per GCS

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: generate programs' man pages in the source directory, per GCS
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:24:25 +0200

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The files man/*.1 are included in the tarballs. By the GNU Coding Standards
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Basics.html>
they should be generated in the source directory.

But this is not what happens:

$ ./configure; make -k maintainer-clean
$ ./bootstrap
$ mkdir bb
$ cd bb
$ ../configure
$ make
$ ls -l ../man/*.1
ls: cannot access '../man/*.1': No such file or directory
$ ls -l man/*.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2245 21. Jul 21:12 man/cmp.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6469 21. Jul 21:12 man/diff.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2858 21. Jul 21:12 man/diff3.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2869 21. Jul 21:12 man/sdiff.1

This patch fixes it.

With it, the result is:

$ ls -l ../man/*.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2245 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/cmp.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6469 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/diff.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2858 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/diff3.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2869 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/sdiff.1
$ ls -l man/*.1
ls: cannot access 'man/*.1': No such file or directory

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Message #8 received at 72236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: 72236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#72236: generate programs' man pages in the
 source directory, per GCS
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:00:02 -0700

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> wrote:
> The files man/*.1 are included in the tarballs. By the GNU Coding Standards
> <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Basics.html>
> they should be generated in the source directory.
>
> But this is not what happens:
>
> $ ./configure; make -k maintainer-clean
> $ ./bootstrap
> $ mkdir bb
> $ cd bb
> $ ../configure
> $ make
> $ ls -l ../man/*.1
> ls: cannot access '../man/*.1': No such file or directory
> $ ls -l man/*.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2245 21. Jul 21:12 man/cmp.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6469 21. Jul 21:12 man/diff.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2858 21. Jul 21:12 man/diff3.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2869 21. Jul 21:12 man/sdiff.1
>
> This patch fixes it.
>
> With it, the result is:
>
> $ ls -l ../man/*.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2245 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/cmp.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6469 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/diff.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2858 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/diff3.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 2869 21. Jul 21:16 ../man/sdiff.1
> $ ls -l man/*.1
> ls: cannot access 'man/*.1': No such file or directory

Thank you for reporting and fixing that. I've applied your patch with
one small change: replace a sequence of TAB-then-8-spaces used for
Makefile indentation with TAB-TAB, to avoid "make distcheck" failure.

Message #13 received at 72236-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 72236-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#72236: generate programs' man pages in the
 source directory, per GCS
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:07:06 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I've applied your patch with one small change

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=diffutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f9bf95640db00aaf82125799429732b99c5f730

Marking as done.

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