From d1bec73266b7ed8e4944a6121de3483929c54f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe Proulx Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 19:08:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: add optional dependency on man MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0a03fea5b..fc6254f22 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ The following items are _optional_ dependencies: - **modprobe**: needed for automatic LTTng kernel modules loading (kernel tracing). - **bash**: needed for running `make check`. + - **man** (manual pager): needed to view LTTng-tools commands' man + pages with the `--help` option or with the `lttng help` command. + Note that without `man`, you cannot get offline help with + LTTng-tools commands, not even their usage. LTTng-tools supports both the [LTTng Linux Kernel tracer](https://lttng.org) and [LTTng user space tracer](https://lttng.org) released as part of the same -- 2.34.1