[bug #61167] "make man" does not generate manpages, as it should

[Keith Marshall]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61167>

                 Summary: "make man" does not generate manpages, as it should
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: keithmarshall
            Submitted on: Wed 15 Sep 2021 11:04:52 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Build/Installation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

To me, this looks like a GCS non-compliance: with a fresh git clone, after
running "./bootstrap", and "./configure", I expect "make man" to generate
manpages, but I see

$ make man
make: 'man' is up to date.

and no manpages are generated; to get them, I have to run (effectively) "make
all".

This is *not* the behaviour stipulated by the GNU Coding Standards: "make all"
is *not* supposed to generate manpages; that is the job of "make man"! 
Requiring me to execute "make all", instead of "make man" is overkill: it
forces me to build the whole kit and caboodle, when all I wanted was the
manpages.




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