Re: convert ggo file to man page

Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:29:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andre Noll wrote:
> On 19:13, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Andre Noll wrote:
>>> On 16:26, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>>> actually gengetopt itself creates its man page using help2man: once you 
>>>> have your program (that uses the gengetopt generated parser), you can 
>>>> build the manpage with help2man, e.g.,
>>>>
>>>> help2man yourprogram
>>> True. But this does not work when cross-compiling. Would it be
>>> difficult to implement something like
>>>
>>> 	gengetopt --print-detailed-help < my.ggo
>>>
>>> which would output the detailed help text directly?
>>>
>> there are already options for this :-)
> 
> Wow :)
> Thanks for pointing that out, and sorry for not RTFM.

No problem :-)
but does this solve the problem of cross-compiling?
Moreover, I guess help2man expects a program name, not a simple output?

cheers
	Lorenzo

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