Commit cdd08959 authored by Peter Eisentraut's avatar Peter Eisentraut

Update man page build instructions.

parent cff4aa6a
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml,v 1.72 2007/12/28 11:13:55 petere Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml,v 1.73 2008/09/12 08:43:53 petere Exp $ -->
<appendix id="docguide">
<title>Documentation</title>
......@@ -131,12 +131,21 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net">DocBook2X tools</ulink></term>
<term><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/SGMLSpm/">SGMLSpm</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This optional package is used to create man pages. It has a
number of prerequisite packages of its own. Check the web
site.
This optional package is used to create man pages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net">DocBook2X</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This optional package is also used to create man pages. You
want the <literal>docbook2man-sgmlspl</literal> package, not
the main <literal>docbook2x</literal> package.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
......@@ -257,6 +266,7 @@ CATALOG "docbook/4.2/catalog"
apt-get install openjade1.3
apt-get install docbook
apt-get install docbook-dsssl
apt-get install sgmlspl # for the man pages
</programlisting>
(The plain <literal>openjade</literal> package installs
OpenJade 1.4, which seems not to work.)
......@@ -573,25 +583,44 @@ gmake postgres.tar.gz
<title>Manpages</title>
<para>
We use the <application>docbook2man</application> utility to
We use the <application>docbook2man-sgmlspl</application> utility
from the <productname>DocBook2X</productname> project to
convert <productname>DocBook</productname>
<sgmltag>refentry</sgmltag> pages to *roff output suitable for man
pages. The man pages are also distributed as a tar archive,
similar to the <acronym>HTML</acronym> version. To create the man
page package, use the commands:
pages, use the commands:
<programlisting>
cd doc/src
gmake man.tar.gz
cd doc/src/sgml
gmake man D2MDIR=<replaceable>directory</replaceable>
</programlisting>
which will result in a tar file being generated in the
<filename>doc/src</filename> directory.
Use the <varname>D2MDIR</varname> variable to specify the name of
the directory where the
file <filename>docbook2man-spec.pl</filename> from
the <application>docbook2man-sgmlspl</application> package resides.
There is no default for that. Since that package is not available
or outdated in many packaging systems, you might want to just
download the source code tarball and unpack it. No building is
required. Then the path is something
like <literal>D2MDIR=/home/you/somewhere/docbook2man-sgmlspl-1.0/perl</literal>.
You may get warnings like this:
<screen>
Warning: unrecognized SDATA '[scaron]': please add definition to docbook2man-spec.pl
Warning: unrecognized SDATA '[ouml ]': please add definition to docbook2man-spec.pl
</screen>
which can ignore if (and only if) you are using the latest version
of <filename>docbook2man-spec.pl</filename>
and you are not seeing any other SDATA warnings besides those.
</para>
<para>
To generate quality man pages, it might be necessary to use a
hacked version of the conversion utility or do some manual
postprocessing. All man pages should be manually inspected before
distribution.
To create the man page package for a release, use the following commands:
<programlisting>
cd doc/src
gmake man.tar.gz D2MDIR=<replaceable>directory</replaceable>
</programlisting>
which will result in a tar file being generated in the
<filename>doc/src</filename> directory.
</para>
</sect2>
......
Markdown is supported
0% or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment