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authorGaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>2010-08-15 09:33:17 -0400
committerGaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>2010-08-16 11:15:17 -0400
commit20b843c820dd147a0f8f7e6d06da7a0c18d40f1c (patch)
tree9275af92a1d964bbd0a556ab105ac779d853fa83 /man
parente7b4e33a3ea1a3cce074da2d91bda7258e01652a (diff)
man: add/change comments regarding the 3 step conversion from text source
In the hope of making it easier to learn. This makefile may serve as a reference. Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/Makefile.am17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index b07da27..edfc506 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
libmandir = $(LIB_MAN_DIR)
+# Source files for X Input v2 man pages
XI2_txt = \
XIChangeHierarchy.txt \
XIDefineCursor.txt \
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ XI2_txt = \
XIListProperties.txt \
XIChangeProperty.txt
+# Source files for X Input v1 man pages
libman_txt = \
XAllowDeviceEvents.txt \
XChangeDeviceDontPropagateList.txt \
@@ -67,10 +69,12 @@ libman_txt = \
XSetDeviceValuators.txt \
$(XI2_txt)
+# Name of DocBook XML files generated from .txt files by asciidoc
libman_xml = $(libman_txt:.txt=.xml)
-# manpages that are references to another page. These are produced as a
-# side effect of the xmlto rule, so they need to be handled specially.
+# Shadow man pages are simply links to a main man page.
+# They are created by the xmlto command when generating man pages from DocBook
+# The shadow man page contains a gtroff .so request to include the main man page
XI2_shadows = \
XIUndefineCursor.man \
XIUngrabButton.man \
@@ -107,6 +111,7 @@ libman_shadows = \
$(XI2_shadows)
+# Name of man page files generated from DocBook XML files by xmlto
libman_PRE = $(libman_txt:.txt=.man) $(libman_shadows)
if INSTALL_MANPAGES
@@ -117,7 +122,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = $(libman_txt) $(libman_PRE)
CLEANFILES = $(libman_DATA) *.libmansuffix
MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(libman_PRE) *.xml
-# prerequisites for the side effect pages
+# Dependencies for X Input v1 shadow pages
XGetDeviceDontPropagateList.man: XChangeDeviceDontPropagateList.man
XChangeDeviceControl.man: XGetDeviceControl.man
XChangeDeviceKeyMapping.man: XGetDeviceKeyMapping.man
@@ -135,7 +140,7 @@ XGetDeviceFocus.man: XSetDeviceFocus.man
XChangeDeviceProperty.man: XGetDeviceProperty.man
XDeleteDeviceProperty.man: XGetDeviceProperty.man
-# XI2 prereqs
+# Dependencies for X Input v2 shadow pages
XIUndefineCursor.man: XIDefineCursor.man
XIUngrabButton.man XIGrabKeycode.man XIUngrabKeycode.man: XIGrabButton.man
XIGetClientPointer.man: XISetClientPointer.man
@@ -151,6 +156,7 @@ XIFreeDeviceInfo.man: XIQueryDevice.man
XORGRELSTRING = $(PACKAGE_STRING)
XORGMANNAME = X Version 11
+# Unable to use __libmansuffix__ as underscores are lost in txt --> xml conversion
MAN_SUBSTS = \
-e 's/__xorgversion__/"$(XORGRELSTRING)" "$(XORGMANNAME)"/' \
-e 's/__xservername__/Xorg/g' \
@@ -163,6 +169,7 @@ SUFFIXES = .man .$(LIB_MAN_SUFFIX)
.man.$(LIB_MAN_SUFFIX):
$(SED) $(MAN_SUBSTS) < $< > $@
+# Generate man pages and shadow pages from .txt and then from DocBook XML
if HAVE_DOCTOOLS
SUFFIXES += .txt .xml
.txt.xml:
@@ -171,7 +178,7 @@ SUFFIXES += .txt .xml
$(XMLTO) man $<
mv -f $(@:.man=.libmansuffix) $@
-# need to force asciidoc/xmlto to run if necessary for side effect pages
+# Invoke asciidoc/xmlto main man page generation for shadow pages
$(libman_shadows):
@if test ! -f $(@:.man=.libmansuffix); then \
rm -f $<; \