Re: Minimal example for perl program

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Russ Allbery <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ole Tange <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> When running:
>
>>   autoreconf --install -W gnu; ./configure ; make
>
>> the manpage is not made. Doing
>
>>   cd src
>>   make parallel.1
>
>> does not make the man page either.
>
> Hurm.  I could have sworn that the man_MANS target was automatically
> built.  What's the output of the latter command?

Could not be more boring:

$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tange/privat/parallel-20100417'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tange/privat/parallel-20100417/src'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tange/privat/parallel-20100417/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tange/privat/parallel-20100417'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tange/privat/parallel-20100417'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tange/privat/parallel-20100417'

> Also, if make install knows to install the man page, make should
> automatically attempt to build it as well, so I'm confused as to why that
> wouldn't happen.

Could the installer just be assuming that the manpage does not need to be build?

Since no one have pointed me to an existing minimal example for perl
and automake I think we should make that example now. I have made the
simplest program and included my (non working) automake files for
that. Feel free to download that to make it work :-)

http://ole.tange.dk/helloperl.tar.bz2


/Ole