[ovs-dev] [PATCH] docs: directly convert dot diagrams into eps for generating PDF

Shu Shen shu.shen at radisys.com
Fri Jan 30 23:46:47 UTC 2015


> This does seem like an improvement in many ways.
> 
> Now, however, the manpage-check target fails for me with:
> 
>     vswitchd/vswitch.eps:81: warning: can't find special character `'
>     vtep/vtep.eps:81: warning: can't find special character `'
>     Makefile:4634: recipe for target 'manpage-check' failed
> 
> but the reason is not immediately obvious (is groff trying to read
> the
> .eps file as if it were troff source?).  Do you have an idea?

The error comes from groff trying to manpage-check the .eps files.

The .eps files were added to man pages so that they can be installed into
dist-docs folder for generating PDF. They shall be removed from the list when
make manpage-check. I'll sending out an updated version of the patch.

Thanks for catching this.

Shu



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