[PATCH] Document GNU_ROFF in Makefile

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Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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