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Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.
Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com> — 1998-03-02T22:37:30Z
> > > > What version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file? > > > > Is this what the 'z' flag is for? > > gnu tar supports the 'z' flag to uncompress and untar at the same > time... This sucks. As a group that seems to not like GNU (or at least their license), we require enough of their tools to compile/install postgres. Off to see the wizard at the gnu ftp site... > > Untar'd and installed them manually...look good, Thomas. Nice work. > > Ya, I've built the Solaris packages with PGDOC set to > $POSTGRESDIR/doc, so that the docs are part of the one package...:) Is that what $POSTDOCDIR is for in the Makefile.global? Would this be a candidate for "--doc-prefix=" to be added to configure? I'd like to be able to put the html docs under my web root instead of the postgres root dir. darrenk
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Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 1998-03-03T03:28:51Z
> > > What version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file? > > > > > > Is this what the 'z' flag is for? > > > > gnu tar supports the 'z' flag to uncompress and untar at the same > > time... > > This sucks. As a group that seems to not like GNU (or at least their > license), we require enough of their tools to compile/install postgres. > > Off to see the wizard at the gnu ftp site... Quit whining and send in some patches :) I hacked those makefiles at the end of a 10 hour push to get the docs wrapped up. The best thing that could be said for them is that they seemed to work on my machine (and I guess on postgresql.org now that I think about it). Could we just replace the "tar zxf" with "uncompress ... | tar xf"? Does anyone else have a strong opinion on (or experience with) makefiles for the postgres distribution who want to help Darren get out from under the gnu usage?? - Tom -
Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.
Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-03-03T03:32:58Z
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Darren King wrote: > > > > > > What version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file? > > > > > > Is this what the 'z' flag is for? > > > > gnu tar supports the 'z' flag to uncompress and untar at the same > > time... > > This sucks. As a group that seems to not like GNU (or at least their > license), we require enough of their tools to compile/install postgres. Actually, I have nothing against GNU...its the GPL that I don't like :) Big big difference... > Is that what $POSTDOCDIR is for in the Makefile.global? Would this be > a candidate for "--doc-prefix=" to be added to configure? I'd like to > be able to put the html docs under my web root instead of the postgres > root dir. Actually, I had to edit the Makefile in the doc directory directly to get it to install where I wanted... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org -
Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 1998-03-03T03:47:47Z
> > Is that what $POSTDOCDIR is for in the Makefile.global? Would this be > > a candidate for "--doc-prefix=" to be added to configure? I'd like to > > be able to put the html docs under my web root instead of the postgres > > root dir. > > Actually, I had to edit the Makefile in the doc directory directly > to get it to install where I wanted... It looks for Makefile.global->Makefile.custom, in which you could put PGDOCS= /your/favorite/docs/location but I'm sure it could stand some changes. Didn't know there was a POSTDOCDIR already defined :( - Tom -
Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-03-03T04:10:31Z
> Could we just replace the "tar zxf" with "uncompress ... | tar xf"? Does > anyone else have a strong opinion on (or experience with) makefiles for the > postgres distribution who want to help Darren get out from under the gnu > usage?? I have gnzip, but no GNU tar, so tar zxf doesn't work. Maybe gunzip ... | tar xf. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)