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Re: Generating man pages from other sources
- From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
- To: Dalibor Topic <robilad at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:09:14 -0800
- Subject: Re: Generating man pages from other sources
- Organization: The Eyrie
- References: <20030313144943.18511.qmail@web10008.mail.yahoo.com>
Dalibor Topic <robilad at yahoo dot com> writes:
> I'd like to have automake generate man pages from a texinfo file (or
> DocBook, or some other format) using a suitable tool. How could that be
> achieved?
There is a texi2pod script that can be used in combination with special
comments in texinfo documentation and the pod2man tool that comes with
Perl to do this. I believe it's currently being used by GCC, Binutils,
and Wget.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford dot edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>