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

[Ingo Schwarze]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #61167 (project groff):

Dave dixit:

> the red-headed stepchildren of documentation

Maybe, but i don't consider this an indication.  Well-designed manual pages
simply don't need to be built, just installed.  So i don't see a problem with
including them in the "install" target - and if afflicted with the autoconf
disease, also in the "all" target; but in most cases, that disease only causes
mild pain and suffering for manual pages, so "man -l foo.man.in" usually works
well enough anyway if you want to read these files without installing them.

Providing extra user-visible targets for every trivial detail runs conter to
the important goal of keeping build systems simple and easy to maintain.

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