Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 04:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: demon@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: latest ports/www/links version breaks -stable release build Message-ID: <200207021140.EAA16826@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020702082402.GI393@cavia.pp.ru> (message from Dmitry Sivachenko on Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:24:02 %2B0400)
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I don't know if anyone wants to try something this radical but www/w3m is a very good html to text converter. cat *.html | w3m -dump -cols 80 -T text/html or w3m -dump -cols 80 -T text/html file.html then again, I don't use links, so I don't know what features it has which make it the desirable choice. -r >On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:11:12AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 12:56:42PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: >> > The latest version ports/www/links no longer has the "-dump" option, >> > which is used by the doc portion of "make release". >> >> FWIW, I worked around this by setting the following options: >> >> HTML2TXT=lynx >> HTML2TXTOPTS='-dump -force_html' >> >> in the doc build environment and changing the docproj port dependency >> from www/links to www/lynx-current. >> > >Or we can resurrect old links-0.97 port as www/links-old (for example). >Unfortunatelly as I suspected links-2 is not fully compatible with links-0.97. > >I wanted to make separate port www/links2, but portmgr@ was against this option. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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