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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2018-02-18 18:04:54 -0500
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2018-02-18 18:04:57 -0500
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Merge #12308: contrib: Add support for out-of-tree builds in gen-manpages.sh
526e28220a contrib: Add support for out-of-tree builds in gen-manpages.sh (Wladimir J. van der Laan) Pull request description: This adds support for setting the environment variable `BUILDDIR` to point to executables that are outside the source directory. E.g. to invoke the tool when the build is in $PWD/build: ```bash BUILDDIR=$PWD/build contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh ``` This avoids having to manually copy the generated manpages after they end up in the build instead of source path, when setting TOPDIR instead. Tree-SHA512: 8dc6dd7a47a0c014ae7d27f0ac9d86f69238ec6bac8a3007b975bb88c9f37014755c716c5e62604dd91baad2f8a41fd1544cdca3ba4b59bc76602e6593f4a4a7
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@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ gen-manpages.sh
A small script to automatically create manpages in ../../doc/man by running the release binaries with the -help option.
This requires help2man which can be found at: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
+With in-tree builds this tool can be run from any directory within the
+repostitory. To use this tool with out-of-tree builds set `BUILDDIR`. For
+example:
+
+```bash
+BUILDDIR=$PWD/build contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh
+```
+
git-subtree-check.sh
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