On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:23:52PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get some manpage related bug fixes in and was wondering
> if someone could tell me how the manpages in the mans/ directory of
> our source tree are generated.

after the binaries are build then pipe them to help2man, then some sed
to replace the "`" if I recall correctly.

> It looks like it's a combination of generation via help2man and
> manually adding some sections (like AUTHOR, BUGS, COPYRIGHT).

help2man -i can be used for adding those extra sections; never bothered
creating a Makefile though because the AUTHORS and COPYING files which
would had been the sources for it are not really well maintained (BUGS
was added and used as a source for example)

Carlo

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