Re: help2man: minor change request for coreutils

[Brendan O'Dea]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:36:22AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>Thanks for the quick work!

You're welcome, thanks for pointing out the problem.

>> Not sure which of install/ginstall is correct, but it does fixes your
>> test/[ problem.
>
>Unfortunately, ginstall is another exception -- but in the other
>direction.  coreutils can't create that binary via `make install'
>because that would conflict with the standard make target, so in the
>case of install.c, the binary (in the build directory) is called ginstall.
>Of course, it gets installed as `install' or with whatever --prefix=P
>was used with ./configure.

In which case I guess that man/install.x should refer to "install"
rather than "ginstall".

help2man-1.35.1 uploaded to ftp.gnu.org with this change.

--bod