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Aurelien did a big conversion of raw troff files into .pod docs in a
recent patch. That worked out pretty well, but I have some reservations
about using POD as a canonical format.
While it does make it pretty simple to write manpages, it's sort of an
obscure format, and is heavily associated with perl. Meanwhile, the
kernel is slowly moving to using ReStructured Text as its documentation
format. Given the simplicity of the cifs-utils manpages, I think we're
better suited to using rst as a canonical format, rather than pod.
This patch converts all of the .pod files in the code to .rst files,
and fixes the Makefile and autoconf to use the correct tools to turn
those into manpages.
The conversion was done with the pod2rst script, with some by-hand
modifications at the end to clean up the formatting and add the manual
section numbers. It's not perfect and could probably use a second pass
to clean up the warts in the formatting, but the content is all intact
and it should be readable.
Finally, convert the makefile rules to use standard SUFFIX rules
instead of the non-portable GNU make % style extension rules. We don't
really expect anyone to use anything other than GNU make here, but
this silences an automake warning.
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
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