Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F7B632CCD for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:28:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94491-07 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:28:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036EC632CA9 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:28:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id o62LS5l24971; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:28:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201007022128.o62LS5l24971@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams In-Reply-To: To: "Marc G. Fournier" Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:28:05 -0400 (EDT) CC: Tom Lane , Alvaro Herrera , Peter Eisentraut , Rafael Martinez , pgsql-docs X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/13 X-Sequence-Number: 5669 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Alvaro Herrera writes: > >> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jul 01 21:52:00 -0400 2010: > >>> Is there something that makes installing dia more challenging than the > >>> other documentation build tools? > > > >> Err, I dunno -- it's just an apt-get away for me, but what will Tom say > >> when it doesn't work on his ancient HP-UX 10.20 system? > > > > I don't try to build the docs on that box anyway --- it does have > > openjade but such an old version that they don't build. In practice > > building the docs already takes much more modern infrastructure than > > compiling the source code; and besides there are many fewer people > > who care about doing it. > > > > A more interesting question is whether Marc can install a working > > version of dia on whatever he uses to wrap the tarballs. > > that shouldn't be an issue ... Peter runs an update every 3 hours on that > machine right now as it is ... OK, everyone seems to like requiring dia. I wasn't sure how popular dia was. One hack solution to allow builds without dia would be to create a Makefile rule that creates empty PNG files to match the dia files. Can someone provide the command-line to build the PNG files from the DIA files? -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + None of us is going to be here forever. +