Hey, I just wrote manpages for everything!
Well, actually I wrote this patch that makes our build system probe for
help2man, and use it to generate a manpage automatically for each
utility. :-)
They can be a good substitute for the info manual we don't have yet, or
(in the future) a complement t
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:29:00PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> + $(HELP2MAN) --no-info $(builddir)/$$file >
> $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/$$dest.1; \
I think I missed --section here. Possibly other options as well. --source=FSF ?
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On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:17:16AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> I think I missed --section here. Possibly other options as well.
> --source=FSF ?
Yes. For reference, I use this for GNU mailutils.
#!/bin/sh
## mangen.sh
## Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
##
## GNU Mailutils i
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:02:06AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> desc=`$prefix/bin/$program --help | sed -n '2s/.*-- //p'`
> $help2man -N -i debian/mangen.inc -s 1 -S FSF -n "$desc"
> $prefix/bin/$program >$program.1
Do we need $desc/-n ? It looks like a workaround for a limitation in help2m
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:29:00PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2008-02-08 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * configure.ac: Probe for `help2man'.
> * Makefile.in (builddir): New variable.
> (HELP2MAN): Likewise. Set to `true' when @HELP2MAN@ doesn't provide it.
>
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:30:42AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > desc=`$prefix/bin/$program --help | sed -n '2s/.*-- //p'`
> > $help2man -N -i debian/mangen.inc -s 1 -S FSF -n "$desc"
> > $prefix/bin/$program >$program.1
> Do we need $desc/-n ? It looks like a workaround for a limitation in
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:16:10PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:30:42AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > desc=`$prefix/bin/$program --help | sed -n '2s/.*-- //p'`
> > > $help2man -N -i debian/mangen.inc -s 1 -S FSF -n "$desc"
> > > $prefix/bin/$program >$program.1
