Re: New XML-based man page build

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New XML-based man page build
Date: 2008-11-10 17:10:34
Message-ID: 1226337034.21303.108.camel@laptop.gunduz.org
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On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:59 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Following up to the recent discussion that our man page build is weird,
> > ancient, and only works with patched tools, I have implemented support
> > for using a newer toolchain based on docbook2x(.sf.net). You can try it
> > out by installing docbook2x and running "make manx".
>
> I just tried it and it works great. This is also Debian so I can't say
> how hard it is to install docbook2x.

On Fedora, package is called docbook-2X , and I had to build the docs
with:

make manx DOCBOOK2MAN=/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2man

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
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