Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Sheri CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] pattern info per pcretest
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Sheri wrote:
> I figured out how to produce the html versions,
Oh, good!
> It is essentially an excerpt of PrepareRelease.
Of course.
> Some of the issues with PrepareRelease that came up trying to use
> "PrepareRelease doc" on Windows under Msys/MinGW:
>
> 1) No tmp directory exists at /C/tmp
Sigh. Compatibility is a hard target.
> 1) No groff (ok I found one, but it didn't solve anything, maybe only needed
> for producing txt versions of the files)
Indeed, it is used only for txt -- I remembered that later, when I was a
long way offline.
> 2) CheckMan is not in the distribution. (have not reviewed it)
There is no reason why it should not be. I'll fix that oversight. Here
is its intro comment:
# A script to scan PCRE's man pages to check for typos in the control
# sequences. I use only a small set of the available repertoire, so it
# is straightforward to check that nothing else has slipped in by
# mistake. This script should be called in the doc directory.
I implemented this after one too many typos escaped and I received
a complaint about blank lines.
> 3) To launch 132html as a perl script on Windows it needs to be run with
> "perl 132html" (assuming perl is somewhere on the Windows path). Or if the
> file extension .pl is registered, a file named 132html.pl could be executed.
I guess there's no harm in putting "perl" in front of all the Perl
scripts that are called from PrepareRelease.
