X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2049C52864 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 04:18:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49906-09 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:18:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailbox.samurai.com (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968F05283A for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 04:18:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) by mailbox.samurai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F50718CDC1; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailbox.samurai.com ([205.207.28.82]) by localhost (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 82983-02-9; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:18:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [61.88.101.19] (unknown [61.88.101.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailbox.samurai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5A018CDBC; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:18:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42A54A31.2090008@samurai.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:18:09 +1000 From: Neil Conway User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Saquib Farooq Malik Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: process hangs when converting sgml documentation to PDF References: <20050607070857.25114.qmail@web30201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050607070857.25114.qmail@web30201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailbox.samurai.com X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.019 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200506/5 X-Sequence-Number: 3098 Saquib Farooq Malik wrote: > openjade -D . -c > /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/catalog -d > stylesheet.dsl -t tex -V tex-backend -i output-print > -V texpdf-output -o postgres.tex-pdf postgres.sgml > > > and that's it, the prompt never comes back. Some people have reported extremely long build times for the SGML docs (e.g. on the order of a week of CPU time, in some cases). As far as I know, this is a problem with the SGML toolchain, not the Postgres documentation itself. > Can anybody please tell me why the process hangs up, > how can I get the PDf version from the sgml > documentations, using gmake. You can get the prebuilt PDFs from: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/ If you need to build them yourself, be prepared for it to take quite some time... -Neil