OK. Figured it out. The manual_node tree gets populated by the script by default. I'm going to guess that the manual_section and manual_chapter trees were removed for some reason? My habit was to read the manual-by-section stuff rather than manual-by-node, but that is no big deal.
On 06/17/18 12:11, Bruce Korb wrote: > Hi Pádraig, > > If "texi2html" is out of date, then how do I get HTML? > I want to keep my online docs up to date. If there's a better > way, I'm for that. I confess I don't closely track stuff so > when better ways come around, I need to find out by bumping > into something. This is such a bump. It would be convenient > if I could just tell the script to "make html" and it figured > out how to do that. :) Also, if it cannot (like I didn't have > texi2html installed), it should *FAIL* rather than silently > creating an empty html file. It took an hour of futzing around > to finally figure out that the execution failure of the non- > existent texi2html was silently ignored. :( > > Thank you! > > On 06/16/18 20:27, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 16/06/18 16:14, Bruce Korb wrote: >>>> html_split> eval 'env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= texi2html >>> --output gnu-pw-mgr.html --split=node --node-files >>> --css-ref=/software/gnulib/manual.css -c TOP_NODE_UP_URL=/manual >>> "/u/gnu/proj/gnu-pw-mgr-bld/doc/gnu-pw-mgr.texi"' >>>>> html_split> env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= texi2html >>> --output gnu-pw-mgr.html --split=node --node-files >>> --css-ref=/software/gnulib/manual.css -c TOP_NODE_UP_URL=/manual >>> /u/gnu/proj/gnu-pw-mgr-bld/doc/gnu-pw-mgr.texi >>> Option c is ambiguous (check, conf-dir, css-include, css-ref) >>> Try 'texi2html --help' for usage instructions. >>> >>> >>> Using "-conf" seems to work >>> >>> diff --git a/build-aux/gendocs.sh b/build-aux/gendocs.sh >>> index 9d418b9..3a64a14 100755 >>> --- a/build-aux/gendocs.sh >>> +++ b/build-aux/gendocs.sh >>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ >>> # gendocs.sh -- generate a GNU manual in many formats. This script is >>> # mentioned in maintain.texi. See the help message below for usage >>> details. >>> >>> -scriptversion=2018-03-06.19 >>> +scriptversion=2018-06-16.16 >>> >>> # Copyright 2003-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >>> # >>> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ EMAIL=webmast...@gnu.org # please override with --email >>> commonarg= # passed to all makeinfo/texi2html invcations. >>> dirargs= # passed to all tools (-I dir). >>> dirs= # -I directories. >>> -htmlarg="--css-ref=/software/gnulib/manual.css -c TOP_NODE_UP_URL=/manual" >>> +htmlarg="--css-ref=/software/gnulib/manual.css -conf >>> TOP_NODE_UP_URL=/manual" >>> infoarg=--no-split >>> generate_ascii=true >>> generate_html=true >>> >>> >> Do you need to use texi2html ? >> In any case -conf is not supported by texi2any or makeinfo. >> Does the following work for you? >> >> diff --git a/build-aux/gendocs.sh b/build-aux/gendocs.sh >> index 9d418b9..91c058d 100755 >> --- a/build-aux/gendocs.sh >> +++ b/build-aux/gendocs.sh >> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ commonarg= # passed to all makeinfo/texi2html invcations. >> dirargs= # passed to all tools (-I dir). >> dirs= # -I directories. >> htmlarg="--css-ref=/software/gnulib/manual.css -c TOP_NODE_UP_URL=/manual" >> +default_htmlarg=true >> infoarg=--no-split >> generate_ascii=true >> generate_html=true >> @@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ while test $# -gt 0; do >> --common) shift; commonarg=$1;; >> --docbook) docbook=yes;; >> --email) shift; EMAIL=$1;; >> - --html) shift; htmlarg=$1;; >> + --html) shift; default_htmlarg=false; htmlarg=$1;; >> --info) shift; infoarg=$1;; >> --no-ascii) generate_ascii=false;; >> --no-html) generate_ascii=false;; >> @@ -199,6 +200,11 @@ commonarg=" $dirargs $commonarg" >> # For most of the following, the base name is just $PACKAGE >> base=$PACKAGE >> >> +if $default_htmlarg && test -n "$use_texi2html"; then >> + # The legacy texi2html doesn't support TOP_NODE_UP_URL >> + htmlarg="--css-ref=/software/gnulib/manual.css" >> +fi >> + >> if test -n "$srcfile"; then >> # but here, we use the basename of $srcfile >> base=`basename "$srcfile"` >> >> >> >> . >> > > >
