From: Miklos Vajna Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:31:49 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Document GNU_ROFF in Makefile Message-ID: <20091021213149.GX6115@genesis.frugalware.org> In-Reply-To: <7a3e6c8c5a11e14c19bc1a27608dcc78171c9feb.1256151199.git.trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna --- On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Thomas Rast 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