Bootstrap failure building fastjar/jar.1, missing pod2man

Sun Sep 22 11:15:00 GMT 2002

On 2002年9月22日, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> Correct, I don't get the problem in the gcc directory. However I
> don't understand what's different in order to fix it. Can you (or
> someone else) help figure this out?

There is a configure check
# Is pod2man recent enough to regenerate manpages?
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for recent Pod::Man])
if (perl -e 'use 1.10 Pod::Man') >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
 GENERATED_MANPAGES=generated-manpages AC_SUBST(GENERATED_MANPAGES)
else
 AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
 GENERATED_MANPAGES=
fi
in gcc/configure.in. Then the dependency causing manpages to be built is
on $(GENERATED_MANPAGES) = @GENERATED_MANPAGES@ (and generated-manpages
depends on lang.generated-manpages, putting the language pages under the
same control).
It's desirable for this check to be centralised somewhere. Likewise the 
check for makeinfo version should be centralised, and apply to the fastjar 
manual as well (the manual may only require 4.0 now and so not cause 
problems, but when we move to using @copying as recommended in the Texinfo 
4.2 release notes to be done "as soon as possible", a lot more people may 
not have that version).
-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk