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Re: Build the SPEC on SuSE Linux



Hi,

On 31 Jan 2001, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> [I'm not subscribe to the list; please, Cc answers.]
>
> At http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/build.html you're asking how to build
> the spec on other distributions.  Please, add this to the web page:
>
> On SuSE Linux 7.1 (and ealier, but I didn't test it) you'll habe to
> install the well know packages from the serie SGML with YaST or YaST2
> (jade, docbkdsl, docbktls).  If you're interested in PostScript out put,
> please install from the serie TeX/LaTeX the teTeX packages and jadetex.
>
> After installing these package, just call:
>
>     db2html spec.html
>     db22dvi spec.html
>
> or
>
>     db2ps spec.html
>
> For more options please try 'db2x.sh --help'.

Seems like this has not been added yet. I have created a patch against
build.html now (see file attached and as Patch #103742 on SourceForge) and
would appreciate, if someone with write permissions could apply it.
Thanks!

Bye,
	LenZ
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Index: build.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/lsb/spec/build.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -u -r1.4 build.html
--- build.html	2000/09/18 18:47:01	1.4
+++ build.html	2001/02/12 08:34:54
@@ -19,6 +19,22 @@
 out copy of the LSB's spec directory. For older versions of Red Hat, see
 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/.
 <p>For other distributions, (FIXME: anyone want to contribute a recipe?).
+<p>For SuSE Linux 7.1, you'll have to install the following packages:
+<tt>jade</tt>, <tt>docbkdsl</tt> and <tt>docbktls</tt> (all from package
+series <tt>sgml</tt>). If you want to generate PostScript output too,
+please install the packages <tt>tetex</tt> and <tt>jadetex</tt> as well.
+<p>
+After installing these packages, just run the following commands:
+<pre>
+db2html spec.html
+db22dvi spec.html
+</pre>
+or
+<pre>
+db2ps spec.html
+</pre>
+For more options please try <tt>db2x.sh --help</tt>.
+<p>
 <p>The top level <tt>makefile</tt> can be used to rebuild the document.
 The default target will build both HTML and RTF format ofthe document.
 There are targets available for building each one individually as well.

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