[PATCH] doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.

[PATCH] doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.

[Alex Kost]

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Since now help2man is needed to build man pages, I think it is worth
mentioning somewhere in the documentation.  Though I'm not sure where.


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From f75411cd7ad1c8cd5ce19a486344f33a7b2b4011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:12:37 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.

* HACKING: Mention 'help2man'.
---
 HACKING | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index cf10ba5..1e742c8 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions:
   - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
   - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
   - [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]]
+  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/][GNU Help2man]] (optional)
 
 Run ‘./bootstrap’ to download the Nix daemon source code and to generate the
 build system infrastructure using autoconf.  It reports an error if an
-- 
2.2.1

Re: [PATCH] doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> From f75411cd7ad1c8cd5ce19a486344f33a7b2b4011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:12:37 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.
>
> * HACKING: Mention 'help2man'.
> ---
>  HACKING | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
> index cf10ba5..1e742c8 100644
> --- a/HACKING
> +++ b/HACKING
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions:
>    - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
>    - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
>    - [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]]
> +  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/][GNU Help2man]] (optional)

This is the right place: Someone building from a tarball won’t need it.

OK to push.

Thanks,
Ludo’.