[INN-COMMITTERS] inn/doc/man (Makefile)

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >> Move the authenticator manual pages into section 8 and add logic to
> >> conditionally install auth_krb5.8 depending on whether it was built.
> 
> > Hmm.  You sure about the conditional installation?  I think it has some 
> > potential for confusion.
> 
> No, not really... but I wasn't sure how best to handle this.  We could
> install a stub program that just bitches all the time, but that seemed
> like a waste since a *lot* of sites won't have Kerberos v5.
>
> I'm wondering about the best way to handle this for the ovdb_* programs
> too, since right now they do the above (install stub programs) and I think
> it would really be cleaner to not install them at all.

Yeah, that's tricky.

Possibly silly solution:  install a little script that just prints "$0 is
not installed because of configure-time settings, see the documentation 
for $0 for details" and symlink any not-installed binaries to that.


> But it seemed wrong to install a man page for a program that wasn't
> installed....

However, I think that if somebody is interested in Kerberos, they should 
be able to grep ~news/man and get sensible results that don't depend on 
what options you passed to configure.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org