new file: x-to-1.in

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

This script that generates man pages using help2man appears to be useful
outside gettext; I'm therefore adding it to gnulib.


2006-08-22  Bruno Haible <address@hidden>

        * build-aux/x-to-1.in: New file, from GNU gettext.

========================== build-aux/x-to-1.in =============================
#! /bin/sh
#
# Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
#

# This program creates a program's manual from the .x skeleton and its --help
# output.

update=
while true; do
  case "$1" in
    --update) update=yes; shift;;
    *) break;;
  esac
done

if test $# != 5; then
  echo "Usage: x-to-1 [OPTIONS] PERL HELP2MAN executable program.x program.1" 
1>&2
  exit 1
fi
PERL="$1"
HELP2MAN="$2"
executable="$3"
aux="$4"
output="$5"

progname=`basename $aux .x`
case "$PERL" in *"/missing perl") perlok=no;; *) perlok=yes;; esac
if test @CROSS_COMPILING@ = no && test -f $executable && test $perlok = yes; 
then
  echo "Updating man page $output"
  echo "$HELP2MAN --include=$aux $executable > $output"
  rm -f t-$progname.1
  $HELP2MAN --include=$aux $executable > t-$progname.1 || exit 1
  if test -n "$update"; then
    # In --update mode, don't overwrite the output if nothing would change.
    if cmp t-$progname.1 $output >/dev/null 2>&1; then
      rm -f t-$progname.1
    else
      mv t-$progname.1 $output
    fi
  else
    mv t-$progname.1 $output
  fi
else
  echo "WARNING: The man page $output cannot be updated yet."
fi