Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:11:29 -0700 From: Jamil Taylor <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> To: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>, Jeff Lee <oxforlife@hotmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable Documentation Message-ID: <web-26648002@back1.mail.megapathdsl.net> In-Reply-To: <20010816144048.B32039@databits.net>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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