[PATCH] Change smb.conf.5 build to use XML entities to get always-correct default paths

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 06:54 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> > This patch set, inspired by the desire to check all parameter defaults
> > in an improved docs.py test, makes the defaults in our 'man smb.conf'
> > always correct for paths.
> > 
> > Because the defaults for some parameters depend on configure options,
> > this provides these options to the XML generation by the means of XML
> > entities - the CPP macros of the XML world. 
> > 
> > Because XInclude only works for full, compliant XML documents, we also
> > have to change the code to manually concatenate the per-parameter XML
> > documents into one big parameters.all.xml. 
> > 
> > This means that no matter what --prefix you put to configure, the
> > smb.conf manpage will list the correct defaults for your platform.  This
> > will also avoid distributions needing to patch the docs to correct the
> > paths. 
> 
> 
> That would be a great great improvement because of that last
> consequence, definitely. Thanks a lot, Andrew, for this proposal.

I couldn't find a patch to do that in the current packaging (perhaps
lost with the 4.0 package), but indeed, I was thinking of Debian in
particular when I decided this was worth the effort.

Andrew Bartlett

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