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Subject: Re: Build fails when Xsltproc not present
From: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
To: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe-data.com>
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Bryan Henderson
<bryanh@giraffe-data.com> wrote:
>
> I believe in that case, it should just skip building the man pages.

We don't do auto-enabling/disabling.

> Or make 'configure' fail and suggest --disable-manpages.
>
> Or make the make fail gracefully, telling you you don't have the tools
> necessary to create man pages and suggesting --disable-manpages.

Failing on configure phase would be the desired solution. I'll take a
look on this for next release, but if  you have a patch ready it would
be appreciated.


thanks
Lucas De Marchi