Makefile/configure patch for manpage generation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

| On 19 Dec 2000, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > | Bootstrapped and passed "make install" with no regressions on
| > | i686-pc-linux-gnu.  OK to commit?
| > |
| > | contrib/ChangeLog:
| > | 2000-12-19  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
| > |
| > | 	* texi2pod.pl: Handle @option and @env.
| >
| > texi2pod.pl is still not working on non-GNU based systems and is
| > breaking install.
| 
| (a) Running contrib/gcc_update --touch should avoid that problem.

Exact.

[...]

| (b) Do the configure changes in this patch not avoid the problem of
| attempting to regenerate manpages without sufficiently recent versions
| installed, or do the Makefile changes in the patch not avoid the problem
| of relying on #! when running texi2pod.pl?

Not relying on #! when running texi2pod.pl.

I'm seeing an ever growing GNUism slipping through the patches.
I think we need to be careful about such things.  Certainly we can't
avoid *all* GNUisms when ones primary development plateform is
GNU/Linux but we should strive for not introducing gratuitous GNUisms.
For a project like GCC, we should not start from the outset with the
petitio principii which has it the World is GNU Based.

-- Gaby
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