On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Sheri wrote: > I figured out how to produce the html versions,
Oh, good! > It is essentially an excerpt of PrepareRelease. Of course. > Some of the issues with PrepareRelease that came up trying to use > "PrepareRelease doc" on Windows under Msys/MinGW: > > 1) No tmp directory exists at /C/tmp Sigh. Compatibility is a hard target. > 1) No groff (ok I found one, but it didn't solve anything, maybe only needed > for producing txt versions of the files) Indeed, it is used only for txt -- I remembered that later, when I was a long way offline. > 2) CheckMan is not in the distribution. (have not reviewed it) There is no reason why it should not be. I'll fix that oversight. Here is its intro comment: # A script to scan PCRE's man pages to check for typos in the control # sequences. I use only a small set of the available repertoire, so it # is straightforward to check that nothing else has slipped in by # mistake. This script should be called in the doc directory. I implemented this after one too many typos escaped and I received a complaint about blank lines. > 3) To launch 132html as a perl script on Windows it needs to be run with > "perl 132html" (assuming perl is somewhere on the Windows path). Or if the > file extension .pl is registered, a file named 132html.pl could be executed. I guess there's no harm in putting "perl" in front of all the Perl scripts that are called from PrepareRelease. Thanks for the feedback. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
