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Re: New XML-based man page build


  • From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
  • To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
  • Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: New XML-based man page build
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:10:34 +0200
  • Message-id: <1226337034.21303.108.camel@laptop.gunduz.org> <text/plain>

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:59 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Following up to the recent discussion that our man page build is weird,  
> > ancient, and only works with patched tools, I have implemented support  
> > for using a newer toolchain based on docbook2x(.sf.net).  You can try it  
> > out by installing docbook2x and running "make manx".
> 
> I just tried it and it works great.  This is also Debian so I can't say
> how hard it is to install docbook2x.

On Fedora, package is called docbook-2X , and I had to build the docs
with:

make manx DOCBOOK2MAN=/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2man

Regards,
-- 
Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
                   http://www.gunduz.org

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