From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Document GNU_ROFF in Makefile
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:31:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091021213149.GX6115@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a3e6c8c5a11e14c19bc1a27608dcc78171c9feb.1256151199.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
---
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
> portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
> which you need to enable to get the new quoting.
You forgot to document this in Makefile. Maybe this could be just
squashed in, Junio will decide.
Makefile | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fea237b..40da590 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ all::
# Define ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF if your DocBook XSL escapes raw roff directives
# (versions 1.72 and later and 1.68.1 and earlier).
#
+# Define GNU_ROFF if you have GNU roff and you don't want to have pretty
+# apostrophe so that cut&pasting examples to the shell will work.
+#
# Define NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER if you cannot use Makefiles generated by perl's
# MakeMaker (e.g. using ActiveState under Cygwin).
#
--
1.6.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 10:29 quote in help code example bill lam
2009-10-12 19:40 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-13 2:16 ` bill lam
2009-10-13 10:19 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-13 14:06 ` bill lam
2009-10-13 15:30 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-13 20:15 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-15 12:02 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 8:24 ` [PATCH] Quote ' as \(aq in manpages Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 10:38 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-21 18:01 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-10-21 18:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 21:31 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2009-10-21 22:22 ` [PATCH] Document GNU_ROFF in Makefile Junio C Hamano
2009-10-21 22:51 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-10-22 8:19 ` [PATCH v3] Quote ' as \(aq in manpages Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 21:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Anders Kaseorg
2009-10-12 21:06 ` quote in help code example Junio C Hamano
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