Re: [gdm-list] db2omf messages

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Chakkaradeep:

> am compiling gdm-2.14.5. I have specified my omf dirs,but i my make 
> gives these messages,
>  
> *db2omf:missing revision element in revhistory*
> *db2omf:missing revnumber element in revhistory*
>  
> and there are many *xml parser errors* before this message , they are 
> associated with *gdm.xml*
>  
> are these errors or ?, am confused....

I think the make process in the docs directory is broken, personally.
Tommi Vainikainen added the gnoem-docs-utils migration code to GDM
in July 2005.  Before then, GDM didn't do anything with the xml file
at make time.  George generated the HTML version of the docs by
running that make-and-upload.sh script in the docs/C directory.  I've
never gotten this script to work on Solaris.

This created a bit of a crisis for me when I first started maintaining
GDM because I didn't know how to build the HTML to update the docs
on the GDM project website.  I assumed Tommi would have set up the
Makefiles to build the HTML and install it somewhere (perhaps in
/usr/share/doc/gdm or somewhere).  But instead it seems he just
put the code in place so the XML file is translated into different
languages, which seems to work.

Fortunately I was able to figure out how to hack the gdm/docs
Makefile to get it to build HTML output, but its a pretty ugly
hack.  I modified the generated docs/Makefile as attached.  For
some reason I have to copy the docs/C/gdm.xml and docs/C/legal.xml
into the docs directory and run "make gdm.html" to get it to build
the docs.  This is what I have been using to update the GDM website
documentation.  It doesn't really work so well, though, since I
notice a bunch of non-ASCII characters get placed into the
generated HTML that I have to strip out with a script.  I suspect
this is related to the error messages about the dashes and such
not being valid.

If anybody knows how to fix this and make the HTML generation work
right, that would be nice.  It would also be nice if the generated
HTML documentation were actually installed instead of just built.

So, yes, there's more work to do to get this really working.  I
have no idea about how to fix this, though.  It's all voodoo to
me.

I've cc:ed Tommi for comment.  I'm not sure who to get involved
to fix this.  Anybody know?

Brian


> i would be happy if someone could help me out...
>  
> thank you.
>
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> C.C.Chakkaradeep,
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