Re: process hangs when converting sgml documentation to PDF

Saquib Farooq Malik wrote:
> openjade -D . -c
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/catalog -d
> stylesheet.dsl -t tex -V tex-backend -i output-print
> -V texpdf-output -o postgres.tex-pdf postgres.sgml
>
>
> and that's it, the prompt never comes back.

Some people have reported extremely long build times for the SGML docs
(e.g. on the order of a week of CPU time, in some cases). As far as I
know, this is a problem with the SGML toolchain, not the Postgres
documentation itself.

> Can anybody please tell me why the process hangs up,
> how can I get the PDf version from the sgml
> documentations, using gmake.

You can get the prebuilt PDFs from:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

If you need to build them yourself, be prepared for it to take quite
some time...

-Neil