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Re: Building PDF documentation


  • From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
  • To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
  • Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Building PDF documentation
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:50:47 -0500 (EST)
  • Message-id: <201001222250.o0MMolT04275@momjian.us> <text/plain>

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-01-22 at 12:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > Wow, that is odd then.  I pulled down a new copy of CVS, ran configure,
> > > and got the same result:
> > 
> > > 	$ gmake postgres.pdf
> > > 	Makefile:172: *** Invalid target;  use postgres-A4.pdf or
> > > 	postgres-US.pdf as targets.  Stop.
> > > 	$ gmake postgres-A4.pdf
> > > 	gmake: *** No rule to make target `postgres-A4.pdf'.  Stop.
> > 
> > > My gmake is version 3.78.1.
> > 
> > Hmm.  Might be time to get something a shade less creaky.  It works for
> > me with gmake 3.79.1, released in 2000.
> 
> Bruce and I had a chat about this and agreed to raise the "recommended"
> make version to 3.79.1, rather than hunting down this issue.

Agreed.  I have reverted the doc mention about HTML being required
first, and bumped up the required gmake version to 3.79.1;  patch
attached.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>        http://momjian.us
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Index: doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -c -c -r1.79 docguide.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml	22 Jan 2010 15:49:29 -0000	1.79
--- doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml	22 Jan 2010 22:48:55 -0000
***************
*** 590,597 ****
  
     <para>
      If you want to use <application>JadeTex</application> to produce a
!     printable rendition of the documentation, you must first build the
!     <acronym>HTML</acronym> output as outlined above, then you can use one of the
      following commands:
  
      <itemizedlist>
--- 590,596 ----
  
     <para>
      If you want to use <application>JadeTex</application> to produce a
!     printable rendition of the documentation, you can use one of the
      following commands:
  
      <itemizedlist>
Index: doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.338
diff -c -c -r1.338 installation.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml	16 Jan 2010 20:38:54 -0000	1.338
--- doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml	22 Jan 2010 22:48:58 -0000
***************
*** 79,85 ****
  <screen>
  <userinput>gmake --version</userinput>
  </screen>
!       It is recommended to use version 3.76.1 or later.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
--- 79,85 ----
  <screen>
  <userinput>gmake --version</userinput>
  </screen>
!       It is recommended to use version 3.79.1 or later.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  


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