From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 13: 8:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734B237BA3F; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:08:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00498; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:08:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3974B95A.73720DD0@urx.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:08:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make install error in fdp-primer References: <3973C061.32A63613@urx.com> <20000718165822.C2747@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:26:41PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I can do a make from /usr/doc now but an install dies in fdp-primer. > > Yeah, I know. I'm fixing this at the moment. Well, you did get me subscribed to this list :). I joke that Murphy makes sure that if there are problems, I will probably see a few of them. He doesn't let me see all of them because that would make it too easy for the maintainers. He also saves the really terrible ones for newbies. As Udo pointed out, the dependancies don't appear to be quite right. It also seems to be a generic problems from my end but I haven't tried everything. The GNU make is strange looking to me, which keeps me from generating a diff. The Unix systems I been on had make generators that took care of you. They don't understand *docs*. For example, I could get past the *.gz problem by doing a make as many times as there are files to be generated. The *.gz files didn't appear to be tested for in the dependancies. Right now the make files are too modular for me but I'll get used to that. The make dependancy problem creates the dueling fingers syndrome where I could do something but it would fail for someone else. The dueling fingers are where you point at the other guy and say it is his problem because it worked for you. FWIW, I believe in the doc-proj. When your system breaks down, you can't depend on an online connection for documentation. I cvsup my docs more often that I do the ports. I also have programs that will print HTML as the author intended and the browser's typically do a terrible job. Cheers, Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message