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

[Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>]

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de> writes:

> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> I don't have a strong opinion.  Either way, I'll be looking at
>> documentation and/or prior examples to make the changes I need to make.
>> :)  As I said in my last follow-up, it would be enough for me if the
>> generated man pages were simply part of the release tarballs (it's not
>> necessary to check them into git).  I'm sure that can be accomplished
>> with makefile magic.
>
> I considered that, part of a 'make dist'-kind of rule.  But
> there is the tarballs generated by github which do a simple
> git-archive. I don't think we can change them to run a custom command.
>
> We fetch our sources from https://brick.kernel.dk.  That seems to be
> generated by the create-archive rule, which we could patch.
>
> If github tarballs differing from Jens' server are not a problem, and
> you can use that server, I'm happy make it build through the
> create-archive rule.  Should solve the problem.

Yes, I use brick.kernel.dk.

>>>> At the very least, please make generation of the man pages optional
>>>> via configure.
>>
>> And this would be a necessary part of the solution, were things to go
>> that way.
>
> ack!

Thanks, Gabriel!

-Jeff