[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add meson.build files to build with meson

[Allan McRae]

On 22/10/18 8:12 am, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:54:57AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 22/10/18 7:46 am, Dave Reisner wrote:
>>> 3) No 'make dist' equivalent. Just run 'git archive' to generate a
>>> suitable tarball for distribution.
>>
>> Is there a way to include pregenerated man pages with git archive?
>>
>> A
> 
> No, git archive only considers what's in the git tree. Is there a reason
> we're determined to pre-generate the manpages instead of just adding
> makedepends on ascididoc?
> 

I think providing prebuilt man pages is more important now we require
python3 for testing given asciidoc requires python2.

Also, most projects ship prebuilt man pages. I think some GNU ones
commit the built page to the tree, so that could be an option.

Allan