docs: Build plain text version of documentation.

Would build HTML version, but pod2html looks terrible.

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index de544e8..1a724bb 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 /local*
 
 /man/*.?
+/man/*.?.txt
 
 .depend
 Goalfile

diff --git a/Goalfile.in b/Goalfile.in
index 05a78dc..ec423f1 100644 (file)
--- a/Goalfile.in
+++ b/Goalfile.in
@@ -120,9 +120,10 @@ goal depend =
 # Documentation.
 
 let POD2MAN = "@POD2MAN@"
+let POD2TEXT = "@POD2TEXT@"
 
-goal documentation = : pod2man ("goals", "1"),
-                       pod2man ("Goalfile", "5")
+goal documentation = : pod2man ("goals", "1"), pod2man ("Goalfile", "5"),
+                       pod2text ("goals", "1"), pod2text ("Goalfile", "5")
 
 goal pod2man (page, section) =
 "man/%page.%section" : "docs/%page.pod" {
@@ -136,6 +137,14 @@ goal pod2man (page, section) =
     mv %@-t %@
 }
 
+goal pod2text (page, section) =
+"man/%page.%section.txt" : "docs/%page.pod" {
+    rm -f %@ %@-t
+    mkdir -p man
+    %POD2TEXT -u %< > %@-t
+    mv %@-t %@
+}
+
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Tests.
 

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5ecbed8..1b18f3d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Requirements:
 
  - menhir (an OCaml-based parser generator)
 
- - pod2man (part of Perl, for generating documentation)
+ - pod2man and pod2text (part of Perl, for generating documentation)
 
  - autoconf and automake
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 51ea721..380a734 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ AC_CHECK_PROG([POD2MAN], [pod2man], [pod2man], [
     AC_MSG_ERROR([pod2man tool from Perl is required])
 ])
 
+AC_CHECK_PROG([POD2TEXT], [pod2text], [pod2text], [
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([pod2text tool from Perl is required])
+])
+
 dnl Substitute OCaml flags and packages.
 AC_SUBST([OCAMLFLAGS], ["-g -safe-string -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVYZX+52-3"])
 AC_SUBST([OCAMLPACKAGES], ["-package str,unix,threads -thread"])