Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Run pod2man with --utf8 option to enable utf8 in manpages

[Peter Maydell]

On 2 February 2012 14:16, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
> +POD2MAN = pod2man --utf8
>  qemu.1: qemu-doc.texi qemu-options.texi qemu-monitor.texi
>        $(call quiet-command, \
>          perl -Ww -- $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/texi2pod.pl $< qemu.pod && \
> -         pod2man --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " qemu.pod > $@, \
> +         $(POD2MAN) --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " qemu.pod > $@, \
>          "  GEN   $@")
>
>  qemu-img.1: qemu-img.texi qemu-img-cmds.texi
>        $(call quiet-command, \
>          perl -Ww -- $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/texi2pod.pl $< qemu-img.pod && \
> -         pod2man --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " qemu-img.pod > $@, \
> +         $(POD2MAN) --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " qemu-img.pod > 
> $@, \
>          "  GEN   $@")
>
>  fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.1: fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.texi
>        $(call quiet-command, \
>          perl -Ww -- $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/texi2pod.pl $< 
> fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod && \
> -         pod2man --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " 
> fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod > $@, \
> +         $(POD2MAN) --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " 
> fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod > $@, \
>          "  GEN   $@")
>
>  qemu-nbd.8: qemu-nbd.texi
>        $(call quiet-command, \
>          perl -Ww -- $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/texi2pod.pl $< qemu-nbd.pod && \
> -         pod2man --section=8 --center=" " --release=" " qemu-nbd.pod > $@, \
> +         $(POD2MAN) --section=8 --center=" " --release=" " qemu-nbd.pod > 
> $@, \
>          "  GEN   $@")

So why does '--utf8' qualify as a common option that we specify just once in
the POD2MAN variable, but --center=" " and --release=" " don't?

Maybe we could reduce the duplication here with a makefile function?

-- PMM