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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index f4c23202f0..d4c05ca879 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -103,9 +103,12 @@ ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP
XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
endif
-ifdef MAN_BASE_URL
+# Newer DocBook stylesheet emits warning cruft in the output when
+# this is not set, and if set it shows an absolute link. We can
+# use MAN_BASE_URL=http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+# but distros may want to set it to /usr/share/doc/git-core/docs/ or
+# something like that.
XMLTO_EXTRA += --stringparam man.base.url.for.relative.links=$(MAN_BASE_URL)
-endif
# If your target system uses GNU groff, it may try to render
# apostrophes as a "pretty" apostrophe using unicode. This breaks