[fpc-devel] FPDoc sources

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 01/09/2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich  wrote:
>> $make html [you snipped this essential detail]
> 
> Ah, I see the problem now... :)
> 
> 
>> That was my conclusion as well, but why should any *Latex* tools be
>> called for generating *HTML* output???
> 
> Because you are trying to create HTML docs for the Language Reference,
> User Guide , Programmer Guide and Class Docs. The first three are all
> written in LaTeX (*.tex) files. Only the Class Docs are written in
> fpdoc XML files.

Thanks, this explains a lot, except *why* the options are so misleading :-(


> If you only want to generate HTML of the Class Documentation (RTL,
> FCL) then a LaTeX executable is NOT needed. To do this, run the
> following make command:
> 
>     $ make rtl.chk
>     $ make fcl.chk

These lead to different errors, like "could not find 'osdefs.inc' " :-(

I'll retry with the last release version, in the hope to eliminate 
compiler version specific issues...

> Please read the README.DOCS file for more alternatives for generating
> documentation.

I've read this (and more) before, but obviously could not find the 
really essential information :-(

DoDi