Hi Michael,
On 2/16/21 11:23 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 2/15/21 10:11 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I tried to render HTML pages with the Makefile.
>> I had some errors, even though the operation succeed (I have the
>> resulting HTML files, and the contents look good in the browser.
>> Has it happened to you before? Do you know how to solve it?
>> I copied here the full error messages, in case it is useful.
>
> There's a bug in the script, it seems. Not all of the pages
> were being correctly processed. In particular, link pages
> (".so dir/page.n") were not being correctly handled. I think
> the patch below fixes things. Can you test and confirm?
Yes, it fixes the error about link pages. Now I have:
$ make HTDIR=.html/ html
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
man2html: Unknown operator .
$
This seems to be an error while parsing <elf.5>.
>
>> I guess this is what you use for generating the online pages, isn't it?
>
> No, which is why I never noticed the bug. I suspect hardly anyone
> tried "make html" for a very long time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 328418e8e..ea31eab80 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ html:
> for i in man?; do \
> [ -d $(HTDIR)/"$$i" ] || mkdir -p $(HTDIR)/"$$i"; \
> find "$$i/" -type f | while read f; do \
> - (cd "$$i"; man2html $(HTOPTS) `basename $$f`) | \
> + man2html $(HTOPTS) $$f | \
> sed -e '1,2d' > $(HTDIR)/"$$i"/`basename $$f`.html; \
> done; \
> done; fi
>
git am failed to apply it. I had to apply it manually.
Thanks,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
