Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3326500FF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:13:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31180-01 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:13:30 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22F8F650034 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:13:29 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Nov 2008 15:13:27 -0000 Received: from gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com (EHLO dhcp-eesp05-101-239.Finland.Sun.COM) [192.18.1.36] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 04 Nov 2008 16:13:27 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ubnswopSu8oX5hshqcnna+KPp30zUpWjamSSaxP aBxOUKaIcBKoMs Message-ID: <49106695.30209@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:13:25 +0200 From: Peter Eisentraut User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: New XML-based man page build Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.78 X-Archive-Number: 200811/5 X-Sequence-Number: 4990 Following up to the recent discussion that our man page build is weird, ancient, and only works with patched tools, I have implemented support for using a newer toolchain based on docbook2x(.sf.net). You can try it out by installing docbook2x and running "make manx". Right now, I can only verify that it works on Debian. Installing this package from sources might be pretty complicated. The build works nicely and quickly, and if we fix up a few small formatting artifacts and sort out the installation issues, we could switch to using this as our standard build method.