Re: Problems building documentation

[Jonathan Kulp]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:17:57AM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > OK it exited with error messages but I think it all built properly anyway:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ce to nonexistent node `Keyboard instruments' (perhaps incorrect
> > sectioning?).
> > /home/jon/lilypond/Documentation/fr/user/out-www//specialist.texi:19:
> > Menu reference to nonexistent node `Keyboard instruments' (perhaps
> > incorrect sectioning?).
>
> The French translation is screwed up.  I can't imagine how they
> missed the entire "keyboards" chapter, though...
>
> > The Program Usage manual says the files will be put in
> > "out-www/offline-root/", but it never made a directory by that name.  I
>
> That's because it died on the French translation.  The individual
> languages are built in
>   Documentation/*/out-www/
> and if they all succeed, the files get copied to
>   out-www/offline-root.

All of this makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation.

> I normally just run "make web" in Documentation/user/, since I
> never check the translated docs.  Nothing gets put into
> out-www/offline-root, but that's no problem for checking that the
> english docs are working.

I tried this on the extra machine in my office and it exited without 
errors. :) It took a lot longer to compile than my laptop (it's a much 
older machine) but it worked perfectly.  I think I'll always run from 
inside this directory in the future.  Thanks for the tip.

Jon

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