Commands like build/man/man journald.conf.d would show the installed
man page (or an error if the page cannot be found in the global search
path), and not the one in the build directory. If the man page is
a redirect, or the .html is a symlink, resolve it, build the target,
and show that.
When a new page is added using man/update-man-rules, ninja doesn't know
about the new target until a build is initiated, so build/man/man and
build/man/html would fail. Force a trivial build to regenerate the rules
before calling 'ninja -t'.
Man page generation is generally very slow. I prefer to use -Dman=false when
developing systemd, and only build specific pages when introducing changes.
Those two little helper tools make it easy:
$ build/man/man systemd.link
$ build/man/html systemd.link
will show systemd.link.8 and systemd.link.html from the build directory build/.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek