Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:37:11 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doc build with .OBJDIR Message-ID: <20030524103711.GE418@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <xzpptm8tzr1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzp1xyqzjxg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030523015453.GF92953@nitro.dk> <xzphe7mxudr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpd6iaxua1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030523141349.GF402@nitro.dk> <20030523203245.GG3794@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20030524085738.GB806@nosferatu.blackend.org> <xzpptm8tzr1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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--pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.05.24 12:17:38 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> writes: > > Well, nothing is easy, our .mk files are very "hairy" cause of multiples > > add-ons etc. All the thing should be rewritten from the beginning, but > > who would be enough "crazy" to take that task? :)) >=20 > A rewrite is definitely needed. That would also be a good occasion to > transition from SGML to XML, if at all possible (XML tools are a > couple of orders of magnitude faster than SGML tools...) Doesn't the XML docbook have problems with including other files as done e.g. in the handbook? I might remember incorrectly, it is some time since I looked at XML docbook last. > As for images, the obvious solution (to me) is to start by recursing > into share/images and build all images there before building the > documents themselves. That was actually also the solution I was thinking a bit about to avoid having to build the images multiple times. Perhaps with the help of symlinks... but I havn't had a closer look at it yet. > For the curious, I've attached my document.mk which I use for pretty > much everything I produce outside the FreeBSD doc tree. It's the nth > generation of something I originally wrote for ThinkSec way back when. > Not a doc.project.mk replacement, but a different take on a similar > theme. Nice, I will take a closer look at it. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+z0tX8kocFXgPTRwRAmFGAJ0f7gRXLj2bhS6UqGdjAaShbc8zXQCgkx7T pE8hE5eCWREzz7QKM0fQ5Oc= =Vl8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O--
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