[flashrom] [PATCH] Pimp the manpage to create nicer hyperlinks and HTML output.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Jan 11 14:08:20 CET 2016


On 08.01.2016 08:57, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:08:21 +0100
> Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Also, add a target to the makefile to build a flashrom.8.html with groff.
>>
>> FIXME: svn:ignore for the html
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
> FIXME: make it work on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
> While their groff creates the html correctly the man page itself is not
> rendered correctly. Instead it creates things like:
>        Please report any bugs to the $@ <MTO>
>        We recommend to subscribe first at $@ <URL>
>
> So sadly, my checks are insufficient to detect systems where this
> works (because they kind of announce they do while they dont).
>
> I am trying to fix this/get help from BSD people but since the produced
> code is actually correct I'd rather commit it anyway and let them fix
> their groff... I'd rather host flashrom.8.html sooner than later.

IIRC you said on IRC that you have a sed version of this. Is this patch
obsolete?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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