[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Support for man pages through help2man
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:37:32 -0500
Christian,
This sounds good, but there are some caveats. You are right. I had
trouble with help2man. I can't remember why, but I couldn't install it
on my system. Since Michel is using MingW and msys to make the
Windows binary, we also need to be sure that they suport the getopt_long
function.
Thanks,
John
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:15:40PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> For a long time I wanted to have man pages for all the liblouis tools.
> The fact that liblouis is now packaged in Debian and Ubuntu has given me
> motivation to take up that task again.
>
> The easiest way to have man pages is to generate them with help2man.
> This requires that all the tools support the --help and --version
> option. As a test I have done this for the simplest tool lou_checktable
> where I added these options and enhanced the build system to
> automatically generate the man page for lou_checktable. I made the use
> of help2man optional as I think John doesn't have it. But presumably the
> packagers will have help2man so the man pages will end up in the Linux
> distributions. In order to support long options I use the function
> getopt_long from getopt.h.
>
> Now the question is:
> 1. Is it ok to add these options to all the liblouis tools
> (lou_debug, lou_checkhyphens, etc)
> 2. Is the use of getopt_long portable? GNU/Linux obviuosly has it
> and so does cygwin as far as I know.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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