Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: turn links to docs/* into absolute path

[Cedric Bosdonnat <cbosdonnat@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 17:59 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:56:12PM +0100, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > From a user point of view, when reading things like "See
> > docs/misc/....txt" in a man page, it is not obvious to find the
> > location of that file. Use $docdir to turn these into absolute
> > paths.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cédric Bosdonnat <cbosdonnat@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in | 16 ++++++++--------
> >  docs/man/xl.pod.1.in     |  2 +-
> >  m4/paths.m4              |  3 +++
> >  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in
> > index 21b58bc21e..29a012b794 100644
> > --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in
> > +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in
> > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ host cpus and memory. In that case, the soft affinity 
> > of all the vcpus
> >  of the domain will be set to the pcpus belonging to the NUMA nodes
> >  chosen during placement.
> >  
> > -For more details, see F<docs/misc/xl-numa-placement.markdown>.
> > +For more details, see 
> > L</@XEN_DOC_DIR@/docs/misc/xl-numa-placement.markdown>.
> 
> I think this is a sensible thing to do. But should you omit the leading
> "/" in all instances?

If I omit this one, the head / seems to be eaten as this has some special
meaning in pod format.

--
Cedric

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