Manpages in doc/ are empty in 1.0.12 tarball

[aelmahmoudy]

Also I notice that c2man is required to build the manpages, yet Debian doesn't have that, and it wouldn't be practicle to add c2man to Debian, just to build fribidi manpages. There's a src2man in Debian, could that be used to generate manpages for fribidi ?

[doronbehar]

I just noticed that today too here on NixOS. I tried to package c2man for NixOS but it proved to be impossible - it's so old that it doesn't use autoconf and automake at all, and it's ./Configure build script failed for me because it can't run on modern machines anymore. This is certainly an issue. src2man looks promising.

[khaledhosny]

c2man is indeed needed when the tarball is generated, we have a copy of of the source in https://github.com/fribidi/c2man and I think @dov needs to build and install it before generating the release tarball.

It is been a while since I looked at c2man alternatives, but it seemed to be a lot of work back then.

[khaledhosny]

I manged to build c2man but now it is choking on some C syntax in a system header. At this point, I think we should extract the man pages from the last tarball that had them, commit them to the repository and dropping c2man completely. Maintaining the man pages manually (they seldom change) is probably much less effort than the alternatives.

CC @behdad

[dov]

Thanks @khaledhosny and @aelmahmoudy . I rebuilt c2man and then did a make distcheck and they see to be ok now. Since I don't like changing released file, I'll bump the version to 1.0.13 and will push a new release.

[dov]

Fixed in version v1.0.13

[aelmahmoudy]

Thanks.

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