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| author | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2016-03-19 15:27:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2016-03-20 23:47:59 +0100 |
| commit | 39118b5eed53725dcd3feb61dc6cde5f98929579 (patch) | |
| tree | f36238bdd22357748d8a78961031dd8463e3aaee | |
| parent | b33d3a5a94c043e8fa9a039033bd6c58a28d3316 (diff) | |
build: Rewrite comments for man pages.
* doc.am <Man pages>: Rewrite comments to describe the build process and
the meaning of the noticeable idiosyncrasies in a more general way.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc.am | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ dvi-local: ps-local ## Man pages. ## ## ----------- ## +# The man pages are generated using GNU Help2man. In makefiles rules they +# depend not on the binary, but on the source files. This usage allows a +# manual page to be generated by the maintainer and included in the +# distribution without requiring the end-user to have 'help2man' installed. +# They are built in $(srcdir) like info manuals. + sub_commands_mans = \ $(srcdir)/doc/guix-archive.1 \ $(srcdir)/doc/guix-build.1 \ @@ -120,22 +126,19 @@ dist_man1_MANS = \ $(srcdir)/doc/guix.1 \ $(sub_commands_mans) -# Man pages are generated using GNU help2man. gen_man = \ LANGUAGE= $(top_builddir)/pre-inst-env $(HELP2MAN) \ $(HELP2MANFLAGS) HELP2MANFLAGS = --source=GNU --info-page=$(PACKAGE_TARNAME) -# Note: Do not depend on 'scripts/guix' since that would trigger a rebuild -# even for people building from a tarball. $(srcdir)/doc/guix.1: scripts/guix.in $(sub_commands_mans) -$(AM_V_HELP2MAN)$(gen_man) --output="$@" `basename "$@" .1` -# Note: The dependency on $(GOBJECTS) is meant to force these docs to be made -# only after all Guile modules have been compiled. The 'case' ensures the man -# pages are only generated if the corresponding script source has been -# changed. +# The 'case' ensures the man pages are only generated if the corresponding +# source script (the first prerequisite) has been changed. The $(GOBJECTS) +# prerequisite is solely meant to force these docs to be made only after all +# Guile modules have been compiled. $(srcdir)/doc/guix-%.1: guix/scripts/%.scm $(GOBJECTS) -@case '$?' in \ *$<*) $(AM_V_P) && set -x || echo " HELP2MAN $@"; \ @@ -147,8 +150,6 @@ if BUILD_DAEMON dist_man1_MANS += $(srcdir)/doc/guix-daemon.1 -# Note: Do not depend on 'guix-daemon' since that would trigger a rebuild even -# for people building from a tarball. $(srcdir)/doc/guix-daemon.1: nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc -$(AM_V_HELP2MAN)$(gen_man) --output="$@" `basename "$@" .1` |