Re: No 6.05/.01 pdf book available

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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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.

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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