Re: [PATCH] Use just-built utilities for help2man rule

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 15 2020, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:13 AM Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jul 15 2020, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> > Under normal circumstances, there should always be a wrapper in
>> > ./tests for each executable in ./bin.
>>
>> There are no dependencies.
>
> OK, want to write a patch to fix *that*?

The rule is broken by design.  It modifies the source directory, but
depends on build artefacts.  Moreover, it can only be run after the
*whole* package has been built.

Andreas.

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