Re: [PATCH nft] build: fix tentative generation of nft.8 after disabled doc

["Laura García Liébana" <nevola@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:17 PM Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 06:31:51PM +0200, Laura Garcia Liebana wrote:
> > Despite doc generation is disabled, the makefile is trying to build it.
> >
> > $ ./configure --disable-man-doc
> > $ make
> > Making all in doc
> > make[2]: Entering directory '/workdir/build-pkg/workdir/doc'
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'nft.8', needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/workdir/build-pkg/workdir/doc'
> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:479: all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/workdir/build-pkg/workdir'
> > make: *** [Makefile:388: all] Error 2
> >
> > Fixes: 4f2813a313ae0 ("build: Include generated man pages in dist tarball")
> >
> > Reported-by: Adan Marin Jacquot <adan.marin@zevenet.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/Makefile.am | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
> > index 6bd90aa6..21482320 100644
> > --- a/doc/Makefile.am
> > +++ b/doc/Makefile.am
> > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > +if BUILD_MAN
> >  man_MANS = nft.8 libnftables-json.5 libnftables.3
>
> Did you make sure that dist tarball still contains the generated man
> pages after your change? Because that's what commit 4f2813a313ae0
> ("build: Include generated man pages in dist tarball") tried to fix and
> apparently broke what you're fixing for.
>

Hi Phil, I tested these cases:
- if the nft.8 already exists it won't be generated
- if it doesn't exist it will be generated
- if disable-man-doc then it won't be generated

I'm missing something?

Thanks!