On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:58:18PM +0200, Ulf-D. Ehlert wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:18:14AM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: > > Since I want to understand a bit more about the gimp build sistem > > I am trying to do the things by hand. > > > > I do not know automake/autotool so I do not really know how html, for > > instance, files are created. > > > > I copied all xml dir outside gimp tree dir and tried to build html by > > hand and failed miserably. > > > > I do not know docbook-xml either and I now know I was a bit "naive" > > thinking that a mere > > > > docbook2html it/gimp.xml > > > > will suffice. > > > > Can anyone help me understand? What I am missing? > > A simple way to see what's happening is > > make --dry-run <what_ever> | less Many thanks! Without your hint I would never thought that --dry-run could printout the commands (a quick look at the manual page confirmed it but --- who read the manuals anyway? ;-) > So in the gimp-help directory try e.g. > > make --dry-run html-en | less > > to see how the English html manual is built, while > > make --dry-run html-it | less > > will show you how to build a translated manual. Done, very instructive! > You will see that the main tool is "xsltproc"; I don't know > "docbook2html" and can't tell you if (and how) it can be used to > create html. xsltproc will suffice, thanks... ... a quick look at che stylesheets included ... what a nightmare! > _______________________________________________ > gimp-docs-list mailing list > gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
