From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 16 16:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DC537B40D for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:35:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dibble@cc.gatech.edu) Received: from dibble.res.gatech.edu (r51h37.res.gatech.edu [128.61.51.37]) by gatech.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA07946 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:35:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeffrey Lee Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:30:39 GMT Message-ID: <20010816.23303965@dibble.res.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: Stable Documentation To: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Win32) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah, I started making that docproj meta-port. Then, I got a little=20= perterbed when it started building and installing Xfree86. I think I'm = just going to install the things listed in the "needed utilities" sectio= n=20 of the documentation project primer. All I really wanted is to make HTM= L=20 files out of the doc tree so that I could read the most up to date=20 documentation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 8/16/2001, 3:11:29 PM, Jamil Taylor wrote=20= regarding Re: Stable Documentation: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:40:48 -0400 > Pete Fritchman wrote: > > ++ 16/08/01 17:59 +0000 - Jeff Lee: > > | I am trying to keep up my reading of the docs from freeBSD-Stable,= but=20 I > > | have no idea how to turn the doc tree into a readable format. I t= ried=20 to > > | read the documentation project primer, but that didn't help too mu= ch. =20 If > > | someone could just send me the procedure to build and install the= > > | documentation, I would be able to read all of it, and possibly > > | contribute. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/x182.htm= l > > > > To actually build the docs (render the different formats from the SG= ML): > > cd /en_US.ISO8859-1; make > > > > You can specify specific formats with the FORMATS variable. > > > > Perhaps the FDP is lacking on this; maybe making it more clear will = be > > your first patch? :-) > > > > Good luck, > > > > -pete > Also, install the tools needed to build the docs. This can be done eas= ily=20 by > installing the docproj port located in ports/textproc/docproj. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message