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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:20:58 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Steve Wills <steve@stevenwills.com>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Docproj Mandatory Tools
Message-ID:  <20010605212058.A19969@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010605231036.A74443@stevenwills.com>; from steve@stevenwills.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:10:36PM -0400
References:  <20010605231036.A74443@stevenwills.com>

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:10:36PM -0400, Steve Wills wrote:
> I decided that I'd like a local copy of the handbook incase I'm ever
> without access to the network and need to reference it. I disocvered
> that all the files in /usr/doc are SGML files. So, I took a look at
> the README there and then went to the web page. I looked at the list
> of mandatory tools needed to compile the doc project stuff here:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/tools.html
>=20
> and built all the tools. Then I went to /usr/doc and ran make. Things
> seemed to be going well until make was unable to find eps2png. I went
> and built eps2png and so far things seem to be going well.=20
>=20
> The point is that it seems like eps2png is required to build the
> docs. Is this correct, or is what I'm doing not supported and not
> exptected to work? Please let me know if I'm doing it all wrong. :) If
> I'm not doing something silly, then you might want to add eps2png to
> the list of requirements reference mentioned above.

eps2png is required.  It should probably be added to the list of tools,
but really, the best way to get the doc tools is the textproc/docproj
port which does include the appropriate things including eps2png.
Building them by hand seems rather pointless.

-- Brooks

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