problem compiling 1.1 cvs

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Aug 19 17:10:51 BST 2005


On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:53:56PM +0000, Carlos Gu?no Grohmann wrote:
> sgmltools --backend=ps manual.sgml
> ...
> 
> 
> Unknown backend ps

What version of sgmltools is this (output from: sgmltools --version)?

> I'm running Gentoo Linux, so the package "docbook-to-man" doesn't
> exist, theres is a docbook2X, and I have a link named docbook-to-man
> pointinf to docbook2X.

I'm afraid docbook-to-man and docbook2man are different, and not
interchangeable.

> Is there a way to skip this?

You can probably just do:

cd src;make install;cd lib;make install

You won't get the docs installed, but everything else should work I
think.

Cheers,
    Olly



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