Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 02:23:55 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Robert L Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov> Cc: Jeffrey Lee <dibble@cc.gatech.edu>, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable Documentation Message-ID: <20010817022353.A47278@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <OF7251C682.F902E9BE-ON88256AAB.0001402A@wr.usgs.gov> References: <OF7251C682.F902E9BE-ON88256AAB.0001402A@wr.usgs.gov>
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:16:15PM -0700, Robert L Sowders wrote: > If you find a way to do this could you post it back to the list. I don't > want to install X just to build the docs either. > cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj make WITHOUT_X11=yes JADETEX=no install should install the minimum amount of stuff necessary to build the docs without installing X and teTeX. > > > > Jeffrey Lee <dibble@cc.gatech.edu> > Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > 08/16/2001 04:30 PM > > > To: stable@freebsd.org > cc: > Subject: Re: Stable Documentation > > > Yeah, I started making that docproj meta-port. Then, I got a little > perterbed when it started building and installing Xfree86. I think I'm > just going to install the things listed in the "needed utilities" section > of the documentation project primer. All I really wanted is to make HTML > files out of the doc tree so that I could read the most up to date > documentation. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 8/16/2001, 3:11:29 PM, Jamil Taylor <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> wrote > regarding Re: Stable Documentation: > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:40:48 -0400 > > Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> wrote: > > > ++ 16/08/01 17:59 +0000 - Jeff Lee: > > > | I am trying to keep up my reading of the docs from freeBSD-Stable, > but > I > > > | have no idea how to turn the doc tree into a readable format. I > tried > to > > > | read the documentation project primer, but that didn't help too > much. > 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.html > > > > > > To actually build the docs (render the different formats from the > SGML): > > > cd <path to co'd doc>/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 > easily > by > > installing the docproj port located in ports/textproc/docproj. > > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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