Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > 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. > +# This makes it sound as if groff is the only roff implementation that has this problem---iow, if we use non-GNU roff then the documentation comes out just fine. Is that the case? Or is the situation more like "we know how to fix this for groff, and the fix is enabled if this variable is defined---on other roff implementations the output is still broken"? > # Define NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER if you cannot use Makefiles generated by perl's > # MakeMaker (e.g. using ActiveState under Cygwin). > # > -- > 1.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html