When building bpf selftests like

  make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf -j20
I hit the following errors:
  ...
  GEN      /net-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-gen.8
  <stdin>:75: (WARNING/2) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:71: (WARNING/2) Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:85: (WARNING/2) Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:57: (WARNING/2) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:66: (WARNING/2) Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:109: (WARNING/2) Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:175: (WARNING/2) Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  <stdin>:273: (WARNING/2) Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
  make[1]: *** [/net-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-perf.8] Error 12
  make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  make[1]: *** [/net-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-iter.8] Error 12
  make[1]: *** [/net-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-struct_ops.8] Error 12
  ...

I am using:
  -bash-4.4$ rst2man --version
  rst2man (Docutils 0.11 [repository], Python 2.7.5, on linux2)
  -bash-4.4$

The Makefile generated final .rst file (e.g., bpftool-cgroup.rst) looks like
  ...
      ID       AttachType      AttachFlags     Name
  \n SEE ALSO\n========\n\t**bpf**\ (2),\n\t**bpf-helpers**\
  (7),\n\t**bpftool**\ (8),\n\t**bpftool-btf**\
  (8),\n\t**bpftool-feature**\ (8),\n\t**bpftool-gen**\
  (8),\n\t**bpftool-iter**\ (8),\n\t**bpftool-link**\
  (8),\n\t**bpftool-map**\ (8),\n\t**bpftool-net**\
  (8),\n\t**bpftool-perf**\ (8),\n\t**bpftool-prog**\
  (8),\n\t**bpftool-struct_ops**\ (8)\n

The rst2man generated .8 file looks like
Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
 .sp
 n SEEALSOn========nt**bpf**(2),nt**bpf\-helpers**(7),nt**bpftool**(8),nt**bpftool\-btf**(8),nt**
 bpftool\-feature**(8),nt**bpftool\-gen**(8),nt**bpftool\-iter**(8),nt**bpftool\-link**(8),nt**
 bpftool\-map**(8),nt**bpftool\-net**(8),nt**bpftool\-perf**(8),nt**bpftool\-prog**(8),nt**
 bpftool\-struct_ops**(8)n

Looks like that particular version of rst2man prefers to have actual new line
instead of \n.

Since `echo -e` may not be available in some environment, let us use `printf`.
Format string "%b" is used for `printf` to ensure all escape characters are
interpretted properly.

Cc: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Fixes: 18841da ("tools: bpftool: Automate generation for "SEE ALSO" sections in man pages")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
---
 tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Author: yonghong-song

tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/Makefile

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ $(OUTPUT)%.8: %.rst
 ifndef RST2MAN_DEP
 	$(error "rst2man not found, but required to generate man pages")
 endif
-	$(QUIET_GEN)( cat $< ; echo -n $(call see_also,$<) ) | rst2man $(RST2MAN_OPTS) > $@
+	$(QUIET_GEN)( cat $< ; printf "%b" $(call see_also,$<) ) | rst2man $(RST2MAN_OPTS) > $@
 
 clean: helpers-clean
 	$(call QUIET_CLEAN, Documentation)