Avoid spurious "make check" failures due to omitted programs.

* man/Makefile.am (distcheck-hook): Make check rules dependents of
this target, not of check-local, so that people aren't distracted by
failures due to programs omitted via --enable-no-install-program=...

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df016fa..427f78e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-12-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       Avoid spurious "make check" failures due to omitted programs.
+       * man/Makefile.am (distcheck-hook): Make check rules dependents of
+       this target, not of check-local, so that people aren't distracted by
+       failures due to programs omitted via --enable-no-install-program=...
+
 2007-12-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * src/uniq.c (usage): Improve wording in --help "Note".

diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 8d1f7f7..b7b960e 100644 (file)
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ mapped_name = `echo $*|sed 's/^install$$/ginstall/; s/^test$$/[/'`
            && rm -rf $t ;;                                     \
        esac
 
-check-local: check-x-vs-1 check-programs-vs-x
+distcheck-hook: check-x-vs-1 check-programs-vs-x
 
 # Sort in traditional ASCII order, regardless of the current locale;
 # otherwise we may get into trouble with distinct strings that the