Hi Brian, On 2023-08-13 23:04, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just to see if making a POSIX book works, I copied 1.23.0 LinuxManBook as > PosixManBook, BuildLinuxMan.pl to BuildPosixMan.pl, LMBfront.t to PMBfront.t > with content changes, added sections "[013]p" and made other obvious perl script > edits '%s/Linux/Posix/g', '%s/LMB/PMB/g'. > > When I ran the perl script, eqn was growing into the GB memory, and eqn and > troff were each hogging a cpu, so I left it running while we were out at dinner > with friends, but *eqn* died after apparently exhausting all memory and using > 48GB page space, getting as far as limits.h(0p) for a 57 page PDF! Huh! If you want to tinker with the Linux man-pages Makefile, it may be useful to your experiment. $ # run the following from the root of the Linux man-pages repository. $ make -kj lint build check MANDIR=../../man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix-2017/ This works. It gets many warnings, of course, but it builds PDF files of every page, among PS, HTML, and a lot more stuff. You may be able to tweak the makefiles to build a book. If you get to that, please send the patches =) I attached one of the pages (from man-pages-posix-2003). (Oh boy, did I ever mention that I like bzero(3)? :D). As mentioned recently in the list, you can use the Linux man-pages Makefile to lint and build PDF, PS, and HTML pages of every project (or at least of every project I tried). If any project fails, I'm interested in making it work, so please report. Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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