Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] docs: our man page generation uses http://man.he.net/ by default which causes broken links. It should be changed to point to a relative path

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ping!
Adding Ian Jackson specifically - we should really fix this for 4.12
Regards
Lars

> On 2 Aug 2018, at 12:24, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> most of our man pages on pretty much all releases from 4.2 contain broken 
> links. 
> 
> For example:
> In https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xl.cfg.5.html the source 
> contains:
> 
> "For more details, see L<xl-numa-placement(7)>." 
> Maps onto http://man.he.net/man7/xl-numa-placement  (does not exist)
> 
> “See L<http://man.he.net/man5/xl-disk-configuration> for more details.” 
> Maps onto http://man.he.net/man5/xl-disk-configuration (does not exist)
> 
> Etc.
> 
> There seem to be two issues:
> * The root path http://man.he.net, which is incorrect
> * The resolution of filenames to man<x>/<name>: should be man/<name>.<x>.html
> 
> Probably we need to feed some arguments to probably we need to feed some 
> arguments 
> to pod2html in order to generate the correct urls. See  
> https://perldoc.perl.org/pod2html.html 
> (maybe we need we need –htmldir). For our docs build, this should probably go 
> to 
> https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/ while for local installs to 
> ${prefix}/share/doc/xen/html/man or something like it.
> 
> I had a look to see whether I can fix this, but that seems a little too 
> complex for me
> 
> Regards
> Lars
> 
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