view tests/svn-safe-append.py @ 8311:e0eb03bfa5af

manpage build: fail early when xmlto is not available

When we try to build manpages with xmlto and sed, but xmlto is
missing fail at the xmlto stage.  Otherwise, one may run `cd doc;
make' and miss the warnings like:

  xmlto: not found
  sed: hg.1: No such file or directory

and end up with empty files installed as manpages.

#!/usr/bin/env python

__doc__ = """Same as `echo a >> b`, but ensures a changed mtime of b.
Without this svn will not detect workspace changes."""

import sys, os

text = sys.argv[1]
fname = sys.argv[2]

f = open(fname, "ab")
try:
    before = os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_mtime
    f.write(text)
    f.write("\n")
finally:
    f.close()
inc = 1
now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime
while now == before:
    t = now + inc
    inc += 1
    os.utime(fname, (t, t))
    now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime