Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] docs: use elinks to format markdown-generated html to text

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Wilson writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] docs: use elinks to format 
markdown-generated html to text"):
> Markdown, while easy to read and write, isn't the most consumable
> format for users reading documentation on a terminal. This patch uses
> lynx to format markdown produced HTML into text files.
...
>  txt/%.txt: %.markdown
> -     $(INSTALL_DIR) $(@D)
> -     cp $< $@.tmp
> -     $(call move-if-changed,$@.tmp,$@)
> +     @$(INSTALL_DIR) $(@D)
> +     set -e ; \
> +     if which $(MARKDOWN) >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
> +             which $(HTMLDUMP) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then \
> +             echo "Running markdown to generate $*.txt ... "; \

So now we have two efforts to try to find markdown, one in configure
and one here.

Keir, would it be OK if we simply declared that you must run configure
to "make docs" ?

Ian.

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