Bug 9866

Summary:	specs directory of xorg-docs doesn't build
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	David Nusinow <dnusinow>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	ed
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	All
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Description David Nusinow 2007-02-03 15:22:51 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #6988 +++

Ok, I've cloned this bug report off from a previous one. The specs directory of xorg-docs doesn't build currently. There isn't any sort of Makefile.am infrastructure to do it right now.

The docs are in various formats, including sub-optimal ones like .doc. There's also at least one in there that I don't recognize (the .mi ones, which look like some sort of *roff). It should be pretty easy to convert the .doc files and also to build the .tex files. docbook xml should be preferred, given the way the rest of the docs are headed.

Comment 1 Eamon Walsh 2007-02-12 21:24:40 UTC

I thought the plan was to gradually convert the stuff under specs into DocBook and move it to the sgml directory.

But yeah, there's no way to build the legacy formats.

Comment 2 David Nusinow 2007-02-13 18:05:22 UTC

I hadn't realized there was an actual plan, but that sounds good to me.

Comment 3 Eamon Walsh 2007-02-13 20:55:57 UTC

Looks like we should join (or restart) the discussion over at Bug #647.  David, you may wish to resolve Bug #5392 as well.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647 ***

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