Re: [Indic-computing-devel] handbook build error - RH8

[<jk...@Fr...>]

> -D  \

This part is definitely wrong.  '-D ' has to be followed by a directory
name.  

Basically, this facility (-D) allows the generated HTML files to be
created in a directory other than where the sources are present.

The rest of the command line is clearly out of sync from this
point onwards since jade takes the next option '-c' as the directory
name.

"$INDIC/share/mk/doc.docbook.mk" defines SGMLFLAGS as follows

doc.docbook.mk:159:SGMLFLAGS+=  -D ${CANONICALOBJDIR}

CANONICALOBJDIR is defined in "/usr/share/mk/bsd.obj.mk"

.if defined(MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX)
CANONICALOBJDIR:=${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}
.else
CANONICALOBJDIR:=/usr/obj${.CURDIR}
.endif

You could work around the problem by (a) defining CANONICALOBJDIR
in the environment, (b) or wrapping line 159 in doc.docbook.mk
with a `.if defined(CANONICALOBJDIR)'.

This may not be the only issue though: you really should have a 
compatible set of BSD make "system" rules (i.e. /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk)
also.

Perhaps Cherry can speak about how he handled these dependencies in
his Debian 'port' of the toolchain.

Regards,
Koshy
<jk...@fr...>