On 08 August 2004 19:47, Ron de Bruijn wrote:
> Well, I did built ghc from CVS, although it contains a
> lot of errors on my machine(like missing IO and
> stuff, but you are probably busy with that),
The CVS sources currently build, and have only a few minor bugs. You
shouldn't be encountering any significant problems.
> but I can't built the docs, because I don't have DocBook
> CATALOG:
>
> checking for openjade... /usr/local/bin/openjade
> checking for DocBook CATALOG... no
> Warning: You will not be able to build the
> documentation.
>
> I read chapter 9 of the building docs, and
> installed(with install defined as: "just put the files
> in place as in the docs") everything that was in the
> docbook paragraph.
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
What platform? Do you have a DocBook toolchain installed?
> I think the docs are old:
> "For example, in build.mk you might have a line:
>
> SGMLDocWays = html ps"
>
> Well, I did find -name build.mk in fptools and I
> searched for it, but the variable/flag wasn't there.
build.mk is created by you (there's a sample in
fptools/mk/build.mk.sample).
> And another thing the WebCVS access is down now for a
> long time. Does this have any reason?
The machine hosting it was re-installed after a breakin, and the
maintainer hasn't set up the web interface to CVS again yet. I think
he's quite busy.
> And yet another thing: will the fptools be Cabalized
> any time (soon)?
Some of the packages in fptools/libraries could be cabalised. In fact,
that would be a fine project for someone looking for something to do...
Cheers,
Simon
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