manpage generation?

[Jeff Johnston]

Howland Craig D (Craig) wrote:
> I'm working on adding missing documentation for about a dozen functions
> in libm.  I've been testing making the PDFs (e.g. libm.pdf) to make
> sure that the additions go in right, but was wondering how man pages
> were
> generated so that I also could double-check that before submitting the
> patch.
>  
> As far as I saw from poking around the makefiles, it doesn't look like
> there are provisions for man pages to be made.  However, I know that
> Cygwin has them, so there must be some way of making them.  (I got the
> Cygwin source, but did not find it there with just a little looking.
> One
> of my reasons for adding what is missing is so that I'll be able to have
> the missing manpages in Cygwin.)
>  
> So, a few questions:
> Does Newlib directly support manpage generation?
>   
No.

-- Jeff J.
> If yes, how is it done?
> If Newlib, itself, does not, does anyone know how it is done in Cygwin?
>  
>   
> Thanks,
> Craig
>