Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:27:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building the docs with make(1) in emacs Message-ID: <19991227222713.Q1290@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991227191414.A80910@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991223185253.D327@marder-1> <19991227191414.A80910@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:14:14PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 06:52:53PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > How do I build the docs tree from within emacs?
> >
> > If, with /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml (or another doc
> > sgml file) open in emacs, select ``Compile...'' from the Edit menu,
> > change the default ``make -k'' in the minibuffer to ``make'', I get
> > this in the *compilation* window:
> >
> > cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/
> > make
> > make: no target to make.
> >
> > Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Dec 23 18:48:02
> >
> > Thinking that emacs may be using it's own ``make'' (gmake?) instead, I
> > tried using the full path ``/usr/bin/make'', but got the same results.
> >
> > What is the cause, and how do I fix it?
>
> Don't know. I use Xemacs, and the following sequence worked for me;
>
> % cd ~/FreeBSD-CVS/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq
> % xemacs book.sgml
>
> and then "Tools -> Compile...", and change "make -k" to "make".
>
> [ There is no "Compile..." option on the Xemacs "Edit" menu. ]
>
You're right. I know it's Tools I was just testing :)
> If I then do
>
> % cd
> % xemacs FreeBSD-CVS/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
>
> and then "Tools -> Compile...", and change "make -k" to "make", it still
> works fine. So it's not related to the directory I start Xemacs in.
>
> What happens if you change "make -k" to "pwd"? I would expect that to print
> out the full path to book.sgml. If it doesn't, that's a good place to start
> looking.
>
Hmm, I just tried it again and it worked :) Maybe I wasn't using emacs
as root before ( [note to self] must set up the title bar to show the user it's
running under). Mind you, I did a make world last night so maybe
something was wrong before (perms etc).
Thanks for the reply anyway.
> N
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