Re: make html: Errors

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

On 2/16/21 11:46 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 2/16/21 11:23 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> On 2/15/21 10:11 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> I tried to render HTML pages with the Makefile.
>>> I had some errors, even though the operation succeed (I have the
>>> resulting HTML files, and the contents look good in the browser.
>>> Has it happened to you before?  Do you know how to solve it?
>>> I copied here the full error messages, in case it is useful.
>>
>> There's a bug in the script, it seems. Not all of the pages
>> were being correctly processed. In particular, link pages
>> (".so dir/page.n") were not being correctly handled. I think
>> the patch below fixes things. Can you test and confirm?
> 
> Yes, it fixes the error about link pages.  Now I have:
> 
> $ make HTDIR=.html/ html
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .
> man2html: Unknown operator .

Yes, it's because of some rather idiosyncratic mark-up
in elf.5. I also noticed this problem, and I've already
changed the mark-up. Changes pushed now.

Cheers,

Michael


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