Revamp semantics for `missing help2man' and manpage distribution.

Previously, `missing help2man' would create a missing man page
containing an error message, and exit 1.  This does not play
well with `make': the next run will see this particular man page
as being up to date, and will only error out on the next
generated man page, if any; repeat until all pages are done.
This patch changes `missing' to exit successfully in this case,
but `make dist' will ensure that no such man pages are packaged.

* lib/missing: Exit successfully even if we create a replacement
page due to missing help2man.
* automake.in (make_paragraphs): Define %HAVE-MANS% to be true
if this makefile deals with man pages.
* lib/am/distdir.am (distdir): If %INSTALL-MAN% and %HAVE-MANS%,
check that no man page in $(MANS) contains the replacement text
from `missing'.
* tests/man4.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
* NEWS: Reorder a bit, update.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Werner Lemberg and Karl Berry.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/missing b/lib/missing
index 32e23d236..f359dae7a 100755
--- a/lib/missing
+++ b/lib/missing
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Common stub for a few missing GNU programs while installing.
 
-scriptversion=2008-12-13.14
+scriptversion=2008-12-21.33
 
 # Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
 # 2008  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ WARNING: \`$1' is $msg.  You should only need it if
     else
 	test -z "$file" || exec >$file
 	echo ".ab help2man is required to generate this page"
-	exit 1
+	exit $?
     fi
     ;;