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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