Commit 37685848 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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try to figure out if -man or -mandoc works to get text with the NROFF 

utility
parent 0412a201

configure.ac

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@@ -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,