[pacman-dev] [PATCH] configure.ac : disable doc by default and check for asciidoc

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Mar 15 23:58:26 CET 2010


On 16/03/10 08:53, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> We cannot do a strict check for asciidoc because released source tarballs
> have man pages already built, and it should be possible to install them
> without having asciidoc.
>
> This patch attempts to improve the situation in two ways :
> 1) disable doc by default
> 2) print a warning if docs are enabled but asciidoc is not installed

Should that be a warning or an error? I think it would be much better to 
fail during the configure.

Allan


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