On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:08:30AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
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> > 
> > The problem I have with asciidoc is that it's a nightmare to get it
> > to work. It's what GIT uses, and after spending a whole day trying
> > to *build* that thing, I finally resigned and asked Junio if he could
> > publish the pre-formatted manpages himself, which he agreed to.
> 
> Bit uses in addition to asciidoc also docbook and a bit more.
> As asciidoc is some phython scripts it should be trivial to
> install with no build required.

I remember it relied on some tools to process xml, but I don't know
exactly what. It were those tools which I could not build.

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> Maybe it was the docbook stuff you had trouble with?

possible, I don't remember that much, it was a painful day one year ago.

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> My Kbuild example were made without using other tools than asciidoc but
> if pdf is desired some additional tools are needed.

It was just needed to build the man pages, so I would have expected it
to be pretty straight-forward too.

Willy

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