Re: Possible dist_man_MANS problem with AM 1.10.1

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Jeff Squyres wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 07:35:51PM CEST:
> On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Sounds like an inconsistency, yes.  Not yet sure how to best solve  
>> this (fix semantics, or fix documentation).  It'd be cool to have two
>> bits of information: whether the manpages are only to be installed
>> conditionally, or also only exist/are generated conditionally.
>
> FWIW, we thought that we had explicitly asked for them to be  
> unconditionally distributed via the "dist_" prefix.

Yes, and you are probably right in thinking so.

>> If you want them to be distributed unconditionally,
>>  EXTRA_DIST += $(dist_man_MANS)
>>
>> is a simple workaround.
>
> FWIW, that doesn't work in my example for 2 reasons:
>
> - Can't use += before = (trivial to fix -- I assume you were just  
> speaking in shorthand)

Yes.

> - Because of the false CONDITIONAL, dist_man_MANS ends up in the  
> Makefile as:

D'oh.  Sorry 'bout that.  Good thing you've found the way around it.

Cheers,
Ralf