On 2023-08-07 03:16, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 2023-08-07 10:45, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 2023-08-07 04:46, Brian Inglis wrote:
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'
That annoyingly minimal message provoked the patch submitted.
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.
Nice - with current page footers!
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)?
Resent the patch cc Deri.
Would it make sense to merge changes into/from groff 1.23 grodpf, which I also
tried, and also did not produce page footers, but did produce lots of
*different* messages.
It seems likely that changes made to build the huge man book might also benefit
other projects with large docs.
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.
See below ;^>
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
