Making documentation - was RE: Docu updates question..

[Dustin Navea]

--- Greg Turner <gmturner007 at ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Friday 08 November 2002 03:59 pm, Tony Lambregts wrote:
> > Greg Turner wrote:
> > >On Friday 08 November 2002 12:19 pm, Tony Lambregts wrote:
> > >
> > >root at yodull greg # locate db2html
> > >/usr/bin/gnome-db2html2
> > >/usr/bin/gnome-db2html3
> > >/usr/bin/gnome2-db2html
> > >/usr/kde/2/bin/kdb2html
> > >/usr/kde/3/bin/kdb2html
> > >/usr/libexec/gnome2-db2html
> > >/usr/libexec/yelp-db2html
> > >/var/src/wine/documentation/db2html-winehq
> >
> > Looks like you don't have  db2html installed.  You need to install
> > the sgml tools for your distribution.  I am not sure what they are
> > called for you but they should be similar to the ones for Redhat. or
> > you can download them and compile them from source. Please keep us
> > informed.
> 
> hmmm... I'm a gentoo victim...
> 
> root at yodull wine.vanilla # emerge search sgml
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : sgml ]
> [ Applications found : 9 ]
> 
> [snip]
> 
> *  app-text/docbook-sgml
>       Latest version available: 1.0
>       Latest version installed: 1.0
>       Homepage:
>       Description: A helper package for sgml docbook
> 
> *  app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd
>       Latest version available: 4.1
>       Latest version installed: 4.1
>       Homepage: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.1/index.html
>       Description: Docbook SGML DTD 4.1
> 
> *  app-text/docbook-sgml-utils
>       Latest version available: 0.6.11-r2
>       Latest version installed: 0.6.11-r2
>       Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/
>       Description: Shell scripts to manage DocBook documents
> 
> [snip]
> 
> looks pretty complete to me....  maybe this'll give me a hint...
> 
> root at yodull wine.vanilla # qpkg -l docbook-sgml
> [snip]
> /usr/bin/sgmldiff
> /usr/bin/docbook2dvi
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/bin/docbook2html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> /usr/bin/docbook2man
> /usr/bin/docbook2pdf
> /usr/bin/docbook2ps
> [snip]
> 
> (emphasis mine)
> 
> aha!  I think that's my mark.  Made a symlink and it looks to be 
> grinding away as I type.  Thanks!
> 

Sounds to me like we need a config check to see if db2html exists and if
docbook2html exists, and if neither do, then it spits out a warning that you
will not be able to build documentation until one is installed...  Alexandre,
you wanna take this one?

-Dustin

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