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Re: quote in help code example

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Oct 13, 2009, 10:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20091013101916.GV23777@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<20091013021616.GA10554@debian.b2j>
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:16:17AM +0800, bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Just a guess: do you have docbook-xsl >=1.73.0 and you did not set
> > ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF?
> > 
> > Try rebuilding the documentation using 'make ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF=YesPlease'.
> 
> I'm not familiar with how to twist git makefile.  By adding a line to ./Makefile
> 
> # Platform specific tweaks
> #
> 
> # We choose to avoid "if .. else if .. else .. endif endif"
> # because maintaining the nesting to match is a pain.  If
> # we had "elif" things would have been much nicer...
> 
> ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF = YesPlease       # <--- this line added
> ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
> 
> However, the man page still display the same

Don't edit the Makefile, just use the command 'make ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF=YesPlease'. Also make sure to do a 'make clean' in the Documentation dir to get the manpages rebuilt.

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  1. bill lamOct 12, 2009
  2. Miklos VajnaOct 12, 2009
  3. bill lamOct 13, 2009
  4. Miklos VajnaOct 13, 2009
  5. bill lamOct 13, 2009
  6. Miklos VajnaOct 13, 2009
  7. Thomas RastOct 13, 2009
  8. Thomas RastOct 15, 2009
  9. Quote ' as \(aq in manpagesThomas Rast, Oct 21, 2009
  10. Miklos VajnaOct 21, 2009
  11. Anders KaseorgOct 21, 2009
  12. Quote ' as \(aq in manpagesThomas Rast, Oct 21, 2009
  13. Document GNU_ROFF in MakefileMiklos Vajna, Oct 21, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  15. Anders KaseorgOct 21, 2009
  16. Quote ' as \(aq in manpagesThomas Rast, Oct 22, 2009
  17. Anders KaseorgOct 21, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2009

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