Re: [PATCH liburing 0/3] Convert manpages to markdown

[Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>]

Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:

> Hi, Gabriel,
>
> Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de> writes:
>
>> This obviously adds a build dependency on pandoc, which is already
>> packaged by any sane distro out there.  The configure file is updated to
>> check for that.
>
> I guess RHEL is not a sane distribution, then.  :)  pandoc was abandoned
> in favor of ghc-pandoc, and RHEL does not ship a haskell compiler.  It
> would make RHEL packaging considerably easier if the generated man pages
> continued to be part of the upstream git tree.  If that's not acceptable,

Sorry, they don't need to be part of the git tree.  If they were a part
of the release tarballs, that would be sufficient.

Cheers,
Jeff

> then I can work around the problem, but it will be a pain.  At the very
> least, please make generation of the man pages optional via configure.
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff