[docs] Discuss manpage output.

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LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation system to is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and updated system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and
after every commit. updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.
If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do: Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:
@@ -22,3 +22,21 @@ If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation `SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax. markup syntax.
Manpage Output
===============
Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `_build/man/`.
cd docs/
make -f Makefile.sphinx man
man -l _build/man/FileCheck.1
The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `_build/man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.