Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 20:50:46 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building documents outside doc/ tree impossible? Message-ID: <20050530165046.GA63216@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20050531.002515.125576180.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <20050530141615.GA55963@comp.chem.msu.su> <20050531.002515.125576180.hrs@allbsd.org>
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On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:25:15AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> wrote > in <20050530141615.GA55963@comp.chem.msu.su>: > > ya> My memory fails to tell me reliably if this was ever possible, but > ya> I've just found that building a document outside the doc/ tree fails > ya> due to errors regarding mailing list entities. Of course, I'm > ya> setting DOC_PREFIX to the actual location of the doc/ tree. Is > ya> this by design, due to a bug, or my fault? I've failed to find any > ya> suspicious Makefile.inc files in the tree or whatever. > > You have to set both of $DOC_PREFIX and > $LANGCODE (LANGCODE=en_US.ISO8859-1, for example). This indeed cures my problem. Thanks a lot! Should we document this point somewhere? Google doesn't think it is documented already ;-( And which knobs should be documented along with these to keep the things logical and comprehensive? Sorry, I like to write and commit documentation periodically, but I have little knowledge about our FDP machinery. -- Yar
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