Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:57:12 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my world build stucks - vi.ref Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961121184731.6387A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611212258.PAA12510@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > Welcome to the club. undef PRINTER. > > > > If nobody objects (and suggests something better), and it bites me > > again, i'll rename the usage of $(PRINTER) to $(FORMAT) in bsd.doc.mk. > > Please! Do it *NOW*! *grin* Yes, please. Watch out though, some Makefiles in the doc tree fiddle directly with the PRINTER variable so just changing it in bsd.doc.mk may break some things. I looked at changing it once, but never got around to it. I might also suggest FORMATS rather than the singular form. The way bsd.sgml.mk works is that all specified formats (eg FORMATS="html ps") get built and/or installed in one pass. Since you can get ascii, latin1, postscript, and others out of groff, it may be applicable for other docs as well. At one point in history, Makefile at the top of the doc tree made two passes over the subdirectories, once with PRINTER=ascii and once with PRINTER=ps. Needless to say, this wasn't very flexible, but removing the explicit setting of PRINTER (which overrides the environment variable) has caused some grief. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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