This adds a dump of current ABIs (which will probably be released
as 1.4.0) to the test directory, and adds a comparison to current
ABIs to the distcheck
Currently, the man pages are converted from a docbook document, but
the conversion doesn't seem very reliable. Also, the man page is
more-or-less duplicated by the html documentation.
This commit moves all tool documentation to a markdown document which
is readable by itself and can be converted by pandoc to a man page
and can be used by Jekyll to populate the website.
Add a github action to build and verify the traditional distribution
source package with GNU Autotools, also known as `make distcheck`.
This helps catch errors propagating required file list changes.
Co-authored-by: Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1@gmail.com>