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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:02:31PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----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...
I haven't been able to build Cygwin documentation with openjade either.
Not that this helps...
cgf