GNU bug report logs - #54363
aclocal man page refers to nonexistent aclocal manual

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From: Esteve Varela Colominas <esteve.varela <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: aclocal info page is not installed
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:45:32 +0100

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Running "man aclocal" mentions the availability of a full texinfo manual for the tool at the bottom. However, running "info aclocal" brings up the same man page. I'd like to have this texinfo page shipped alongside the texinfo page that's already installed for the "automake" tool itself.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834971

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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
To: Esteve Varela Colominas <esteve.varela <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54363: aclocal info page is not installed
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:11:39 -0500

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On 13 Mar 2022 00:45, Esteve Varela Colominas wrote:
> Running "man aclocal" mentions the availability of a full texinfo manual for the tool at the bottom. However, running "info aclocal" brings up the same man page. I'd like to have this texinfo page shipped alongside the texinfo page that's already installed for the "automake" tool itself.

there is no such "aclocal" manual.  there is only the "automake" manual.
the aclocal man page should point to the automake manual.
-mike

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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
To: 54363-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: refer to automake manual in all man pages
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:14:37 -0500

Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/54363.

There is no "aclocal" manual as it's all integrated into the automake
manual, so have all the help2man calls force automake as the manual.

* doc/local.mk: Use --info-page=automake for man pages.
---
 doc/local.mk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/local.mk b/doc/local.mk
index 921e22e9ec54..a3503b76ac97 100644
--- a/doc/local.mk
+++ b/doc/local.mk
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += %D%/help2man
 update_mans = \
   $(AM_V_GEN): \
     && $(MKDIR_P) %D% \
-    && AUTOMAKE_HELP2MAN=true ./pre-inst-env $(PERL) $(srcdir)/%D%/help2man --output=$@
+    && AUTOMAKE_HELP2MAN=true ./pre-inst-env $(PERL) $(srcdir)/%D%/help2man --output=$@ --info-page=automake
 
 %D%/aclocal.1 %D%/automake.1:
 	$(AM_V_GEN): \
-- 
2.34.1

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