[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed May 23 19:11:00 GMT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:31 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:55:56PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >David,
> >
> >> I'm willing to bet that the Cygwin folks building documentation are
> >> doing so on Linux.  (I'd bet one beer, anyway.  Maybe not a whole
> >> 6-pack...)
> >
> >Ah good, so I'm not alone in thinking that it is ok to build the
> >documentation on Linux.
> >
> >Does Cygwin actually have an elaborate build system for 
> documentation?
> >(e.g. makefiles, autoconf stuff, etc.)  Or, do the doc 
> builders just run
> >'db2html' on their Linux boxen when things have been updated?
> >
> >Thanks for the input,
> 
> There's a doc directory.  "make" produces the documentation.

Uhmm. Yeah. Problem is, I cannot get the db2html script to play. Not
badly, not nicely. It's bundled with jade, not openjade.. and last I
tried failed to build the rpms.

Any hints are appreciated...

> 
> cgf
> 



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