docs build system (was Re: GNOME 2 schedule and issues)

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:35:51PM -0500, Trevor Curtis wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:35:36AM -0700, John Fleck offered:
> > coming along, but we need people testing it. Greg Leblanc and Dan
> > Mueth have set up a template for the necessary Makefile.am's, but we
> > need people to begin adding this to the packages to see how it works
> > in practice and work out any build bugs now, before the documentation
> > blitz begins in earnest next month.
> 
> Really? I guess I'm out of the loop. I've been waiting for info on how to 
> incorporate the building of the docs with a given app. Is there a brief 
> how-to on this? Admittedly, I might have gotten trigger happy with the 'd' 
> key and deleted an email that explained this. 
> 

I can write up something to be added to Malcolm's porting guide. It's only in
the last couple of days that Greg has gotten this working, so no, you haven't
been out of the loop. There's really no loop except a lot of frustrated
swearing on IRC by Greg as he tried to get it working.

Cheers,

John