Re: db2html in gnome 1.0

[José Romildo Malaquias <romildo urano iceb ufop br>]

There is a complete set of tools for processing DocBook documents
at

	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/rosalia/docware/

in rpm format.

José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br>
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On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 12:16:40AM +0100, hhv wrote:
> Xun Cheng wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,first I want to thank you for the great work of gnome development.
> > I love it.
> > Second, I have a question on the compilation of tarballs. Several
> > packages are using db2html to generate docs. But they are reporting
> > errors on my machine. The error is strange, such as "cp ../index.html .,
> > no such files" etc. Could someone explain it to me how to install
> > a correct db2html package?
> 
> This error has presumably been preceeded by another error:
> 
> db2html: command not found  (or the like)
> 
> That is without db2html no html docs are built. So nothing can be copied.
> 
> I have found a db2html executable in the gnome-docu module. I copied this to
> /usr/bin, But now 'jade' was missing. I installed jade, but this required
> docbookDTD. Got it, compiled it. But it wasn't the end other things were missing.
> And configuring anythiong to run properly seemed to require to scan several
> hundred kilobytes of html docs. Finally I was fed up and chose to live with the
> errors as long as packages compile successful without it, This works in most
> cases.
> 
> Yesterday I compiled the new gnome-libs. make succeded, but make install didn't
> bacause of the docs stuff, so I disabled the make install: targets in the docs
> subdirectories, where necessary. And I will continue to do so, until I find
> an acceptable way to get the sgml/docbook thing to work. I really don't need
> these things. And if this is the only way to get gnome to compile successfully
> I'm prepared to live without the docs. I think one day there will be usable docs
> or manpages somewhere on the net.
> 
> Henning
> 
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