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Re: Classpath website


From: Brian Jones
Subject: Re: Classpath website
Date: 11 Nov 2001 16:43:43 -0500
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Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:40:54PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > 
> > Forgive my ignorance of wml (I saw in the README that questions should be
> > send to /dev/null, but that didn't gave any meaningfull answer).
> 
> ARGH! I really should learn to read the documentation!
> The doc/www.gnu.org/README says: At this time you may also need sed 3.02.80+
> as well which is available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sed/
> I had only GNU sed 3.02 installed (since that is the default Debian sed).

Sorry, forgot about that gotcha, which is probably why I wrote the README.
 
> The strange thing is that when I did install sed 3.02.80 I also had to
> change the include from include\/macros.wml to ..\/include\/macros.wml.
> Did someone actually run make in the doc/www.gnu.org directory recently?

Umm, the #!wml --include=.. should have taken care of that which sed
puts in the .wml files produced from the texi2html output.  It does
work for me.
 
> To help other people that don't want to install an alpha version of GNU sed
> I would propose that we workaround the fact that some versions of sed don't
> like \n in the RHS of the expression by using ^ as a temporary newline
> marker and then use tr to change it into an actual newline.
> I have attached a patch to do this. With this patch I am able to build
> the web documentation using GNU sed 3.02 (and 3.02.80). OK to commit?

Okay with me.

Brian
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