Hi Brian, On 2023-08-07 18:21, Brian Inglis wrote: [...] >>> $ 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. Yeah; it took me some time to find the cause. The error message doesn't even tell who failed --was it the shell, was it gropdf, was it troff?--. :) > >>>> 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! Can you confirm if you can build the book correctly after I pushed Deri's change? I'm worried that I couldn't reproduce your problem, and would like to know if it has gone away or persists for you. > >>> 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. We don't have a gropdf(1) copy anymore. :) > >>>> 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 ;^> Sooo true. Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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