Re: coreutils: Where is the repository of the manual pages?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jari Aalto on 10/23/2007 1:19 AM:
> But looking at the checkout dicrectory:
> 
>   man/
> 
> The manual pages do not seem to be maintained there.

That's because they are generated files, and are not stored in the
repository.  You must check out and build coreutils before they will be
generated.

> Could you point me to the manual (info?) sources

The documentation is in the doc dir, in texinfo format:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=history;f=doc/coreutils.texi;h=aa25fcd;hb=758a615

The generated info pages are stored online, at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/

And since the man pages are basically little more than the --help output,
reformatted, there is no need to store it online in contrast with the info
pages.

> and document
> which explains the build procedure for *.N files.

The man pages are generated with help2man, as part of the build process -
look at the man/Makefile.am for information.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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