Bug#70891: m68k, potato] Missing documentation

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:03:22PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > The disks-m68k/current tree in potato is missing the English install
> > > documentation.
> 
> > I will see if I still have the build logs at home, I want to know what went
> > wrong.
> The problem is (was) here:
> 
>    ln dynamic_C_m68k.ent dynamic.ent
>    debiandoc2text -d debiandoc.decl -l C -O install.sgml > install.en.txt
>    /bin/sh: invalid character 45 in exportstr for amiga-fdisk
>    /bin/sh: invalid character 45 in exportstr for pmac-fdisk-cross
>    /bin/sh: invalid character 45 in exportstr for util-linux
>    /bin/sh: invalid character 45 in exportstr for atari-fdisk
>    /bin/sh: invalid character 45 in exportstr for mac-fdisk
> is this a serious warning?
>    /usr/bin/debiandoc2text: invalid character 45 in exportstr for amiga-fdisk
>    /usr/bin/debiandoc2text: invalid character 45 in exportstr for pmac-fdisk-cross
>    /usr/bin/debiandoc2text: invalid character 45 in exportstr for util-linux
>    /usr/bin/debiandoc2text: invalid character 45 in exportstr for atari-fdisk
>    /usr/bin/debiandoc2text: invalid character 45 in exportstr for mac-fdisk

These are due to the fact "-" isn't a valid character in a variable name.
Some of those make variables got carried to the shell, and bash 2.04
complained. This bug has been fixed in the latest documentation/Makefile*
from CVS, I've removed the hyphens.

>    nsgmls:en/inst-methods.sgml:824:23:E: general entity "mac-disk-image" not defined and no default entity
>    make[3]: *** [install.en.txt] Error 1
> 
> I could not find mac-disk-image to be define anywhere. Seems this section
> has been commented out in 2.2.17 (if <!-- --> is an sgml comment?).

Yes, it was supposed to be commented out, I did that.

I can compile the m68k installation manual just fine now.

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