From: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:18:04 +0000 (+0700)
Subject: maint: don't run help2man on programs not-yet-built.
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maint: don't run help2man on programs not-yet-built.

* Makefile.am (doc/libtool.1, doc/libtoolize.1): Added a
comment about why the dependencies here have to be a mite
bizarre.

Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e0ed89c23..839614c7e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-09-01  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
+
+	maint: don't run help2man on programs not-yet-built.
+	* Makefile.am (doc/libtool.1, doc/libtoolize.1): Added a
+	comment about why the dependencies here have to be a mite
+	bizarre.
+
 2010-09-26  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
 	tests: remove unused `aux_dir' variable from `getopt-m4sh.test'.
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 86234232b..2f7ac2da2 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -395,6 +395,11 @@ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES	+= $(dist_man1_MANS)
 update_mans = \
   PATH=".$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$PATH"; export PATH; \
   $(HELP2MAN) --output='$@'
+
+# It's wrong to make distributed files (e.g. $(libtool_1)) rely on
+# files created in the build tree, so instead we regenerate the
+# manual pages if the sources for the build-tree files we want to
+# run have changed.
 $(libtool_1): $(ltmain_sh)
 	$(update_mans) --help-option=--help-all libtool
 $(libtoolize_1): $(libtoolize_in)