[Privoxy-devel] Test building docs

[Ian Silvester]

Getting somewhere - the OS X build doesn't use make, and it turns out the documentation targets depend upon a basic make having been run first.

On Thu, 23 Dec 2021, at 14:37, Ian Silvester wrote:
> Thanks Fabian,
>
> As it goes I'm running Gentoo so my make is GNU; gmake dok dok-tidy 
> gives the same error as make does.
>
> I must admit to feeling quite dumb here - I'm in the privoxy directory 
> yet so far as I can tell from the error make is behaving as though it 
> can see a Makefile, just not one containing the dok target. The files 
> are most definitely there though. I thought opendoc/jade would be the 
> difficulty but I'm not even getting that far!
>
> Anyone got any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, at 09:07, Fabian Keil wrote:
>> "Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote on 2021-12-20 at 08:47:56:
>>
>>> I am trying to update the out-of-date Mac build documentation,
>>> and of course am running into the joys of Docbook. The documentation
>>> build guide tells me to run 'make dok dok-tidy' to test my modified
>>> SGML, to which I get:
>>> 
>>> make: *** No rule to make target ' dok'.  Stop.
>>> 
>>> Is the documentation build documentation also out of date?
>>> How should I proceed to rebuild developer-manual.sgml?
>>
>> Unfortunately our build system requires GNU make.
>>
>> On GNU/Linux systems "make" usually is GNU make but for example
>> on ElectroBSD "make" is a BSD make and one has to install GNU
>> make extra in which case it is called gmake.
>>
>> My impression is that you didn't use GNU make either.
>>
>> If I use "make" I get the same error you did:
>>
>> | fk at t520 ~/git/privoxy.git $make dok dok-tidy
>> | make: don't know how to make dok. Stop
>> |
>> | make: stopped in /home/fk/git/privoxy.git
>>
>> Using "gmake dok dok-tidy" works as expected.
>>
>> Fabian
>>
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