Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/24/2012 09:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sounds good.  I.e., it sounds like we want Stefano's patch, after all.
>
> As you recall, a nice side effect is that we will
> no longer distribute the generated man/*.1 files.

Well if we don't distribute the .1 files,
wouldn't perl would be a hard requirement?

It might be better to insert a warning like:
  "warning perl unavailable: this manpage may be out of date"
at the bottom of man pages but only for source files
that actually were updated?

cheers,
Pádraig.