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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Subject: bug#72236: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#72236: generate
 programs' man pages in the source directory, per GCS)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:08:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#72236: generate programs' man pages in the source directory, per GCS

which was filed against the diffutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 72236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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