Re: AM_MISSING_PROG

[Reuben Thomas]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hello Reuben,
>
> * Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:19:10PM CET:
> > what's the status of this macro?
>
> It is still not documented.  It is not deprecated either, but as the
> 'missing' script is not easily extensible by the user, the situations
> where AM_MISSING_PROG is helpful for the user are rather limited.
>
> > With a quick google I can find a
> > discussion about documenting it, and apparently a commit of a patch to
> > document it, in November 2007, but I can't find any evidence of its ever
> > having been committed in the git repo.
>
> Yes.

Is there some reason for this, given that a documentation patch was, 
seemingly, accepted?

> It's ok to use it with help2man; 'missing' has code for this.

OK, thanks.

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