[CMake] building from source - manpages?

Nils Gladitz nilsgladitz at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 05:09:42 EDT 2014


On 09/04/2014 10:52 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> I'm trying to whip up an Ubuntu PPA for the latest release. I've gotten to the point where the package builder wants to bundle the manpages, but cannot find them. Is there a build dependency for generating these that I'm missing?

Since 3.0 CMake uses the sphinx documentation generator.
On Ubuntu the package is called "python-sphinx".

If you are using the bootstrap script for the build I think you need to 
also pass --sphinx-man .

If you are using cmake to build cmake instead you need -DSPHINX_MAN=ON .

Nils


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