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    build-sys: create Makefile-man.am automatically · 56ba3c78
    Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek authored
    man rules were repeating the same information in too many places,
    which was error prone. Those rules can be easily generated from .xml
    files. For efficiency and because python is not a required dependency,
    Makefile-man.am is only regenerated when requested with
    
      make update-man-list
    
    If no metadata in man/*.xml changed, this file should not change. So
    only when a new man page or a new alias is added, this file should
    show up in 'git diff'. The change should then be committed.
    
    If the support for building from git without python was dropped, we
    could drop Makefile-man.am from version control. This would also
    increase the partial build time (since more stuff would be rebuild
    whenever sources in man/*.xml would be modified), so it would probably
    wouldn't be worth it.
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