gzip would run as 'gzip -f' when no uncompressed man pages were found,
making it compress the (empty) stdin to stdout.
A few alternative solutions:
- 'find' with {} + might be speedier, but maybe that's not portable
enough (though it's in POSIX 2001 at least AFAICS)
- xargs --no-run-if-empty, but that's a GNU extension
- Always discarding stdout, if it's unlikely to ever be helpful
- More fancy stuff like the following, though maybe some of them could
run into shell limits too, re. d56fcf299fb4 (DocBook: Do not exceed
argument list limit)
* A plain shell 'for' loop
* mandocs: $(MAN)
if [ `find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then \
find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f; \
fi
* mandocs: $(MAN)
man_pages=`find $(obj)/man -name '*.9'`; \
if [ -n "$$man_pages" ]; then \
echo "$$man_pages" | xargs gzip -f; \
fi
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index b6a6a2e..73bddf7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
mandocs: $(MAN)
- find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
+ find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' -exec gzip -f {} \;
installmandocs: mandocs
mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
--
2.1.4
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