From 4ca41a13571a363a22bf25ce139353c1bb976c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jahway603 <jahway603@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 03:07:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added help2man check in gen-manpages.sh

---
 contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh
index 4acce0959..f4f569710 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh
+++ b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Copyright (c) 2016-2020 The Hush developers
+# Copyright (c) 2016-2021 The Hush developers
 # Released under the GPLv3
 
 TOPDIR=${TOPDIR:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}
@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ HUSHTX=${HUSHTX:-$SRCDIR/hush-tx}
 
 [ ! -x $HUSHD ] && echo "$HUSHD not found or not executable." && exit 1
 
+# Check if help2man is installed
+# If not then display error to user and exit
+if ! command -v help2man &> /dev/null
+then
+    echo "help2man could not be found"
+    echo "Please install from your Linux package manager and try again"
+    exit
+fi
+
 # use this if hushd is not running
 #HUSHVER="v3.6.2"
 HUSHVER=$(./src/hushd --version|head -n1|cut -d' ' -f4|cut -d- -f1)