Re: Building PDF documentation

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-01-22 at 12:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > Wow, that is odd then.  I pulled down a new copy of CVS, ran configure,
> > > and got the same result:
> >
> > >     $ gmake postgres.pdf
> > >     Makefile:172: *** Invalid target;  use postgres-A4.pdf or
> > >     postgres-US.pdf as targets.  Stop.
> > >     $ gmake postgres-A4.pdf
> > >     gmake: *** No rule to make target `postgres-A4.pdf'.  Stop.
> >
> > > My gmake is version 3.78.1.
> >
> > Hmm.  Might be time to get something a shade less creaky.  It works for
> > me with gmake 3.79.1, released in 2000.
>
> Bruce and I had a chat about this and agreed to raise the "recommended"
> make version to 3.79.1, rather than hunting down this issue.

Agreed.  I have reverted the doc mention about HTML being required
first, and bumped up the required gmake version to 3.79.1;  patch
attached.

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Index: doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -c -c -r1.79 docguide.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml    22 Jan 2010 15:49:29 -0000    1.79
--- doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml    22 Jan 2010 22:48:55 -0000
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*** 590,597 ****

     <para>
      If you want to use <application>JadeTex</application> to produce a
!     printable rendition of the documentation, you must first build the
!     <acronym>HTML</acronym> output as outlined above, then you can use one of the
      following commands:

      <itemizedlist>
--- 590,596 ----

     <para>
      If you want to use <application>JadeTex</application> to produce a
!     printable rendition of the documentation, you can use one of the
      following commands:

      <itemizedlist>
Index: doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.338
diff -c -c -r1.338 installation.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml    16 Jan 2010 20:38:54 -0000    1.338
--- doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml    22 Jan 2010 22:48:58 -0000
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*** 79,85 ****
  <screen>
  <userinput>gmake --version</userinput>
  </screen>
!       It is recommended to use version 3.76.1 or later.
       </para>
      </listitem>

--- 79,85 ----
  <screen>
  <userinput>gmake --version</userinput>
  </screen>
!       It is recommended to use version 3.79.1 or later.
       </para>
      </listitem>