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From: Mark Kirkwood <[email protected]>
To: Mark Kirkwood <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Build man pages: unkown SDATA
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:12:55 +1300
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>> $ make man
>>> ...
>>> onsgmls  postgres.sgml | sgmlspl
>>> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl
>>> --lowercase --section l --date "`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`"
>>> Unknown SDATA: [mdash ] at
>>> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl line
>>> 1239, <STDIN> line 10730.
>>> make: *** [man] Error 9
>>
>> You need a more recent version of docbook2man-spec.pl.
>>
> Thanks Peter, I'll hunt one up - incidentally, both FreeBSD 6 and Gentoo 
> 2006.1 use this same version of docbook-utils :-(, so it means going 
> outside the ports/portage structures (pity).
> 

Actually it doesn't (well not on Gentoo anyway). The docbook2X package 
has Thomas Lockhart's version of docbook2man-spec.pl, which works. 
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a port of this for Freebsd 
that I could find (I guess it is not that vital - can probably just copy 
the single file from the Gentoo package).

So - bottom line is that docbook2X *not* docbook-utils (or 
docbook-sgml-utils) is the package required. The Pg documentation does 
actually say this (requires docbook2X for Linux), but I was confused by 
the lack of any such package on Freebsd (oops).

One other point for those who wish to struggle with this - ./configure 
does not detect the -spec file, you need to set D2MDIR to where it lives 
(/usr/bin on this Gentoo dist) before trying to build the man pages.

Cheers

Mark

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