[RFC Patch v3 2/3] doc: add target rst2man to build man pages using rst2man

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Feb 23 15:57:11 PST 2014


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

> Anyway, I tried to build manual pages using 'make man' and got this:
>
>   $ make man
>   sphinx-build -b man -d doc/_build/doctrees -q -c doc doc doc/_build/man
>   Sphinx error:
>   Builder name man not registered

It seems you need sphinx version 1.0, from July 2010 for the man
builder.

> No fallback to use rst2man...

I don't really plan on an automatic fallback. There is currently a
separate target rst2man.  I'm open to better names for the targets.

> Comments regarding prerst2man.py inline below:

Yeah, I'm sure there's lots that could be improved with that script. But
I'll wait until I see if the general approach is acceptable.

d


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