[Pkg-shadow-devel] [PATCH] man pages: add helpful error message when --enable-man is needed

Nicolas François nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Sun Aug 30 19:47:35 UTC 2009


Hello,

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:29:44AM -0400, vapier at gentoo.org wrote:
> If the build system needs to generate man pages but --enable-man was not
> specified, you get a useless error message like:
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `groups.1', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.
> 
> So include all the targets like normal but if man pages cannot be generated,
> emit a useful error message:
> you need to run configure with --enable-man to generate man pages

Thanks for the patch. It is now committed.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral



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