From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 16 14: 1: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B5D1551D; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA96842; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:05:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:05:36 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: committers@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doc tree is FROZEN Message-ID: <19990816210535.A96418@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Reply-To: nik@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from John Polstra on Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 08:24:59AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, [-committers, -doc, reply-to: me] On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 08:24:59AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > The doc tree is frozen until further notice. Please don't make any > commits there (unless your name is Nik Clayton). The tree is still frozen. To keep everyone in the loop; The recent commits get the Makefile infrastructure partway working. They do the right thing, but the install directory is hardcoded in some Makefiles. This hardcoding will disappear when the various language translations of the FAQ are converted to DocBook, and use the new Makefile framework. ETA for that is end of the week. You are encouraged to download the doc/ repository and try various combinations of "make" and "make install". I'd like to know where it blows up. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message