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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:05:53 +0800
From:      Alvin Sim <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: doc - dont know how to make install?
Message-ID:  <1573611753.20010925140553@yahoo.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010925041334.A2359@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <1881665695.20010924182912@yahoo.co.uk> <20010924142722.B75389@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010925041334.A2359@hades.hell.gr>

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heya...

Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 09:13:34 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> wrote:
>> * Alvin Sim <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk> [20010924 13:27]: writing on the subject 'doc - dont know how to make install?'
>> | 
>> | i dont know what i have done wrong or where i have missed but i am
>> | unable to make the docs.
>> | 
>> | i cvsup'ed the doc-supfile and cd into /usr/doc and did a
>> | 
>> | insoniac:/usr/doc# make -DDOC_LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 install
>> | ===> en_US.ISO_8859-1
>> | make: don't know how to make install. Stop
>> | *** Error code 2
>> | 
>> | so what did i miss? could someone steer me to the right direction
>> | please. thanks.
>> 
>> I guess you'll not succeed at all. What are the contents of /usr/doc ?
>> Is there a file called Makefile in there? If not then you need to go back and 
>> re-read the HOWTO you were following.

yes, i do have a /usr/doc directory including a Makefile in it.


> True.  This is what he should do :)

heh heh... that was what i did afterwards only to find that freebsdzine
has been down for 2 days (for me). if i remember correctly, it was the
HOW-TO on keeping the docs up-to-date.

>> My box doesn't even have /usr/doc ;-)

> That should be created by CVSUp when doc-supfile is used.

> -giorgos





-- 
Regards,
Alvin   mailto:bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk


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