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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-22 16:32:33 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-22 16:32:33 +0000
commit1277d8b91c6c41283562865c1c0fc925a2e58280 (patch)
tree1783649b934e7c1b9d9dac9e42db0e37a3fed836 /man
parentf7259485a4099764be43872a8ba830ee1883b0b2 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-1277d8b91c6c41283562865c1c0fc925a2e58280.tar.xz
(.x.1): Substitute 's,$t/$*,$*,' on output of
help2man, to avoid having `rm.td/rm' appear in rm.1. Reported by Thomas Luzat. See http://bugs.debian.org/202413 for details.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/Makefile.am7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index e241a061d..91445ab2d 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -123,13 +123,18 @@ mapped_name = `echo $*|sed 's/install/ginstall/'`
# Note the use of $t/$*, rather than just `$*' as in other packages.
# That is necessary to avoid failures for programs that are also shell built-in
# functions like echo, false, printf, pwd.
+# The shenanigans after invoking $(HELP2MAN) are solely to convert the
+# two uses of program_name in rm.1's examples with `rm'.
+# Otherwise, they would otherwise appear as `rm.td/rm'.
.x.1:
@echo "Updating man page $@"; \
mkdir $t; \
(cd $t && $(LN_S) ../../src/$(mapped_name)$(EXEEXT) $*$(EXEEXT)); \
$(HELP2MAN) \
--include=$(srcdir)/$*.x \
- --output=$@ $t/$*$(EXEEXT); \
+ --output=$@t $t/$*$(EXEEXT)
+ sed 's,$t/$*,$*,' $@t > $@t2
+ mv $@t2 $@
rm -rf $t
check-local: check-x-vs-1 check-programs-vs-x