doc: Add rake linkchecker task, and document it in the README file

[arvados.git] / doc / README.textile

diff --git a/doc/README.textile b/doc/README.textile
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@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ Alternately, to make the documentation browsable on the local filesystem:
 arvados/doc$ rake generate baseurl=$PWD/.site
 </pre>
 
+h2. 2. Run linkchecker
+
+If you have "Linkchecker":http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/ installed on
+your system, you can run it against the documentation:
+
+<pre>
+arvados/doc$ rake linkchecker baseurl=$PWD/.site
+</pre>
+
+Please note that this will regenerate your $PWD/.site directory.
+
 h2. 2. Preview HTML pages
 
 <pre>