Re: [PATCH] x-to-1: Honor $PERL

[Jim Meyering]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> * build-aux/x-to-1.in: Run $HELP2MAN via $PERL so that the user gets a
> chance to use his preferred version of Perl.  This is typically
> required by Darwin users whose default /usr/bin/perl do not have all
> the libraries required by help2man, and who need to use their MacPorts
> installation of Perl instead.
> ---
>  build-aux/x-to-1.in |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/build-aux/x-to-1.in b/build-aux/x-to-1.in
> index 3c598e8..d5cb868 100644
> --- a/build-aux/x-to-1.in
> +++ b/build-aux/x-to-1.in
> @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ progname=`basename $aux .x`
>  case "$PERL" in *"/missing perl") perlok=no;; *) perlok=yes;; esac
>  if test @CROSS_COMPILING@ = no && test -f $executable && test $perlok = yes; 
> then
>    echo "Updating man page $output"
> -  echo "$HELP2MAN --include=$aux $executable > $output"
> +  echo "$PERL $HELP2MAN --include=$aux $executable > $output"
>    rm -f t-$progname.1
> -  $HELP2MAN --include=$aux $executable > t-$progname.1 || exit 1
> +  $PERL $HELP2MAN --include=$aux $executable > t-$progname.1 || exit 1
>    if test -n "$update"; then
>      # In --update mode, don't overwrite the output if nothing would change.
>      if cmp t-$progname.1 $output >/dev/null 2>&1; then

Hi Alexandre,

That looks like a fine patch.
It looks like this is Bruno's script, but it's small/safe enough
that if there's no objection by tomorrow, I'll push it then.