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| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 18 |
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 6b4059e02..83e3070ff 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -991,6 +991,24 @@ AC_PATH_PROGS( NROFF, gnroff nroff, , $PATH:/usr/bin/:/usr/local/bin ) AC_SUBST(NROFF) +AC_MSG_CHECKING([how to use *nroff to get plain text from man pages]) +MANOPT="-man" +mancheck=`echo foo | $NROFF $MANOPT 2>/dev/null` +if test -z "$mancheck"; then + MANOPT="-mandoc" + mancheck=`echo foo | $NROFF $MANOPT 2>/dev/null` + if test -z "$mancheck"; then + MANOPT="" + AC_MSG_RESULT([failed]) + AC_MSG_WARN([found no *nroff option to get plaintext from man pages]) + else + AC_MSG_RESULT([$MANOPT]) + fi +else + AC_MSG_RESULT([$MANOPT]) +fi +AC_SUBST(MANOPT) + AC_PROG_YACC dnl AC_PATH_PROG( RANLIB, ranlib, /usr/bin/ranlib, |