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

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:00:02AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. I figured that fixing this wouldn't be easy, that's why I ACK'ed
the whole set.

-Ben

> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
>