Add a test for the manual pages

This replaces e0491d2 to run xmlto from the man directory. This handles
the case more gracefully if xmlto is not available.

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_manpages.sh b/tests/test_manpages.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# test_manpages.sh - run some validity checks on the manual pages
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 Arthur de Jong
+#
+# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+# Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+# 02110-1301 USA
+
+set -e
+
+# find manual page directory
+srcdir="${srcdir-`dirname "$0"`}"
+top_srcdir="${top_srcdir-${srcdir}/..}"
+
+# if xmlto is missing, ignore
+if ! xmlto  --version > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
+then
+  echo "xmlto not found"
+  exit 77
+fi
+
+# set up a temporary directory
+tmpdir="test_manpages.tmp"
+mkdir "$tmpdir"
+
+# generate HTML for all manual pages
+for man in $top_srcdir/man/*.xml
+do
+  echo "xmlto $man"
+  xmlto xhtml-nochunks -o "$tmpdir" "$man"
+done
+
+# clean up
+rm -rf "$tmpdir"