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-rw-r--r--doc/user-guide/Makefile6
-rw-r--r--doc/user-guide/genhelp.py3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user-guide/Makefile b/doc/user-guide/Makefile
index 28dd56ec..01fd9aa2 100644
--- a/doc/user-guide/Makefile
+++ b/doc/user-guide/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ ifdef _SRCDIR_
_SRCDIR_ := $(_SRCDIR_)doc/user-guide/
endif
+ifndef PYTHON
+PYTHON = python
+endif
+
all: help.txt
user-guide: user-guide.txt user-guide.html # user-guide.pdf user-guide.ps user-guide.rtf
@@ -31,7 +35,7 @@ help.xml: commands.xml
xsltproc --xinclude --output $@ docbook.xsl $<
help.txt: $(_SRCDIR_)help.xml $(_SRCDIR_)commands.xml $(_SRCDIR_)misc.xml $(_SRCDIR_)quickstart.xml
- python $(_SRCDIR_)genhelp.py $< $@
+ $(PYTHON) $(_SRCDIR_)genhelp.py $< $@
clean:
rm -f *.html *.pdf *.ps *.rtf *.txt *.db.xml
diff --git a/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py b/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py
index b6a23c11..ec619344 100644
--- a/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py
+++ b/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
# Usage: python genhelp.py input.xml output.txt
# (Both python2 (>=2.5) or python3 work)
+#
+# The shebang above isn't used, set the PYTHON environment variable
+# before running ./configure instead
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License