On 2023-08-07 10:45, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Brian, Deri, > > On 2023-08-07 04:46, Brian Inglis wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> I noticed there appears to be no 6.05/.01 pdf book available yet. >> Are there build issues? > > Yup. > > $ pwd > /home/alx/src/linux/man-pages/man-pages/6.04/scripts/LinuxManBook > $ ./BuildLinuxMan.pl ../../ > [...] > Failed to open 'DESC' > > >> >> When I run the script/LinuxManBook/BuildLinuxMan.pl, after applying the gropdf >> patch, manually in the build dir, I get a pdf, but without any man page footers. > > Hmm, that's weird. After applying your patch, It works fine for me. > I do see the page footers. However, I have old builds of groff in my > system, which I haven't cleaned up, so maybe they interfere positively > to that outcome. Maybe from a clean installation of Debian Sid I > wouldn't be able to reproduce that. I have uploaded the 6.05.01 book now. Cheers, Alex > > Nevertheless, now I remember Deri told me he hardcoded a lot of stuff > for 1.22.4 which should be removed after the release of 1.23.0, so it > seems that the time has come to chop a lot of stuff from there. > > Deri, would you mind simplifying the scripts assuming a Build-dep of > groff(>=1.23.0)? > >> >> Are there any other scripts which need to be run and/or groff commands or data >> which need to be supplied? > > No. It's just: > > $ cd scripts/LinuxManBook/ > $ ./BuildLinuxMan.pl ../../ > >> >> It would be nice to see this eventually added to your RELEASE doc, and maybe >> also to the make scripts. > > Yes. I first want to put it in the Makefiles, and then add it to > INSTALL. Then something to RELEASE. But I first want to simplify > the script so I can understand it. > > Cheers, > Alex > >> > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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