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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 18:28:45 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: docs/22333: share/doc/smm/07.lpd building moved in 3.0 !
Message-ID:  <20010510182845.B48333@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <200105101459.KAA81040@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:59:38AM -0400
References:  <200105080839.f488dp692478@freefall.freebsd.org> <r8xzccz3.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> <20010510105525.A14445@sunbay.com> <200105101459.KAA81040@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:59:38AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 10 May 2001 10:55:25 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> said:
> 
> > Let's hear what Garrett thought about that originally...
> 
> In the original 4.4 code, the documentation was built with the
> binaries.  There was some reason why we didn't want to do that -- I
> don't remember what it was -- and built it from share/doc instead (as
> was the case in FreeBSD 1.x).  (Or perhaps it was not built at all --
> I'd have to dig far back in time to find the answer.)
> 
> Eventually I came to the conclusion that whatever reason we had back
> then, it was completely wrong and we should build the program-specific
> documents in conjunction with the programs themselves.  The general
> (mostly historical) documents should probably migrate out to the doc
> tree, which we didn't have at the time.
> 
Perhaps, the reason was -DNO_SHAREDOCS?  This case is broken now.
Any objection if I restore the building of docs under share/doc?
Of course, if no NO_LPR is set...


Cheers,
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