[dm-devel] [PATCH 4/7] libdmmp: allow building without perl

[Martin Wilck]

On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 23:25 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:29:41PM +0100, mwilck at suse.com wrote:
> > From: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
> > 
> > Add the kernel-doc generated manpages of libdmmp to git, and
> > change the libdmmp Makefile to regenerate them (only) when
> > necessary.
> > 
> > This allows us to drop perl as a build-time requirement.
> 
> Git complains about a bunch of trailing whitespace issues here, but
> this
> is a great idea.

The files are generated by kernel-doc. So unless we want to work
on the whitespace treatment of kernel-doc (I wouldn't), we have to live
with git's complaints in this area.

Thanks,
Martin