Man page generation is generally very slow. I prefer to use -Dman=false when
developing systemd, and only build specific pages when introducing changes.
Those two little helper tools make it easy:
$ build/man/man systemd.link
$ build/man/html systemd.link
will show systemd.link.8 and systemd.link.html from the build directory build/.
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+ echo "Use: $0 page-name (with no section suffix)"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+target="man/$1.html"
+ninja -C "@BUILD_ROOT@" "$target"
+set -x
+exec xdg-open build/"$target"
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+ echo "Use: $0 page-name (with no section suffix)"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+target=$(ninja -C "@BUILD_ROOT@" -t query man/man | grep -E -m1 "man/$1\.[0-9]$" | awk '{print $2}')
+if [ -z "$target" ]; then
+ echo "Cannot find page $1"
+ exit 1
+fi
+ninja -C "@BUILD_ROOT@" "$target"
+exec man build/"$target"
'mv t @0@/rules/meson.build'.format(meson.current_source_dir())],
depend_files : custom_entities_ent)
endif
+
+############################################################
+
+configure_file(
+ input : 'man.in',
+ output : 'man',
+ configuration : substs)
+
+configure_file(
+ input : 'html.in',
+ output : 'html',
+ configuration : substs)
substs.set('RC_LOCAL_SCRIPT_PATH_STOP', get_option('halt-local'))
substs.set('MEMORY_ACCOUNTING_DEFAULT', memory_accounting_default ? 'yes' : 'no')
substs.set('HIGH_RLIMIT_NOFILE', conf.get('HIGH_RLIMIT_NOFILE'))
+substs.set('BUILD_ROOT', meson.current_build_dir())
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