Re: No 6.05/.01 pdf book available

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On 2023-08-07 10:45, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Brian, Deri,
> 
> On 2023-08-07 04:46, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> I noticed there appears to be no 6.05/.01 pdf book available yet.
>> Are there build issues?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> $ pwd
> /home/alx/src/linux/man-pages/man-pages/6.04/scripts/LinuxManBook
> $ ./BuildLinuxMan.pl  ../../
> [...]
> Failed to open 'DESC'
> 
> 
>>
>> When I run the script/LinuxManBook/BuildLinuxMan.pl, after applying the gropdf 
>> patch, manually in the build dir, I get a pdf, but without any man page footers.
> 
> Hmm, that's weird.  After applying your patch, It works fine for me.
> I do see the page footers.  However, I have old builds of groff in my
> system, which I haven't cleaned up, so maybe they interfere positively
> to that outcome.  Maybe from a clean installation of Debian Sid I
> wouldn't be able to reproduce that.

I have uploaded the 6.05.01 book now.

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> Nevertheless, now I remember Deri told me he hardcoded a lot of stuff
> for 1.22.4 which should be removed after the release of 1.23.0, so it
> seems that the time has come to chop a lot of stuff from there.
> 
> Deri, would you mind simplifying the scripts assuming a Build-dep of
> groff(>=1.23.0)?
> 
>>
>> Are there any other scripts which need to be run and/or groff commands or data 
>> which need to be supplied?
> 
> No.  It's just:
> 
> $ cd scripts/LinuxManBook/
> $ ./BuildLinuxMan.pl ../../
> 
>>
>> It would be nice to see this eventually added to your RELEASE doc, and maybe 
>> also to the make scripts.
> 
> Yes.  I first want to put it in the Makefiles, and then add it to
> INSTALL.  Then something to RELEASE.  But I first want to simplify
> the script so I can understand it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
> 
>>
> 

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