Erik Heckers fixed bug #493 Searching the installed man pages for SDL functions fails, e.g. man -k SDL_ |grep Video After investigating this I found that "makewhatis", the tool that generates the "whatis" database, reads the SDL_* man pages, but doesn't produce entries in the "whatis" database for the SDL_* man pages. After some more debugging I found the reason is a missing space. After editing SDL_Init.3(.gz) and replacing SDL_Init\- Initializes SDL with SDL_Init \- Initializes SDL everything works fine. After running "makewhatis" I can successfully do a man -k SDL_ and SDL_Init is listed in the output.

#!/bin/sh
#
echo "Generating build information using autoconf"
echo "This may take a while ..."

# Regenerate configuration files
cp acinclude.m4 aclocal.m4
found=false
for autoconf in autoconf autoconf259 autoconf-2.59
do if which $autoconf >/dev/null 2>&1; then $autoconf && found=true; break; fi
done
if test x$found = xfalse; then
    echo "Couldn't find autoconf, aborting"
    exit 1
fi
(cd test; sh autogen.sh)

# Run configure for this platform
echo "Now you are ready to run ./configure"