Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

[Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>]

Nik Clayton wrote on 010210 00:27 +0000:
... 
>   That's that, pretty much.  You can see BSD style .mk files that
>   implement all of this, at
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/share/mk/
> 
>   and pay particular attention to doc.docbook.mk.  I'm not aware of any
>   Linux distributions (with scripts like dbtopdf) that make this level
>   of customisation possible.  Of course, it would be trivial for you to
>   implement your own replacement scripts which do this.  The FreeBSD
>   make(1) approach is, of course, there for the taking, and I'm happy to
>   discuss it further on either this list, or doc@freebsd.org.

Thank you Nik for your detailed information, this was really helpful.

I had a first look at the FreeBSD-Makefiles you mentioned in your
posting. AFAIK it would mean an almost complete rewrite of the doc.*.mk
files because FreeBSD uses Berkeley Make which is not compatible with
GNU Make (tell me if I'm wrong or if there exists an easy conversion
path). 
I'd really like to see a similar set of Makefiles for Linux and
maybe will start a small project on this topic. If I have some
questions I will post them here.

Michael
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