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When I ran the "make" command the resulting html files are just written
into the directory that "make" was run from. How do I tell "make" to
write the output to a location of my selection?
'make install' should respect DESTDIR, of course, and I think (but
did not test) that the usual OBJDIR-manipulation variables would
work.
I take this to mean there are existing methods to point the html code
generated by the make process to a separate path. Being brand new to
changing content of the handbook I am un-familiar with the DESTIR and
OBJDIR variables.
Please provide an example of how to code it on the command line.
`make DESTDIR=/path/to/web/root install`
will install the compiled html files to the indicated path, but will
also leave a copy of them in the source (doc?) tree where you currently
don't like them.
The one that I'm not entirely sure would work would be something
like
`make MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/doc`
which I guess would mirror the directory structure of the doc tree
checkout (using absolute paths!) inside /usr/obj/doc instead of
leaving html files in the source tree. But again, I did not test
that to check.
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is documented in build(7).
For your information. I did many trial and error runs testing
make DESTDIR=/root/htm.text install
make MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/root/html.text
make install -D /root/html.text
In all cases the generated html code gets populated into the directory
the make command was executed from and /root/html.text directory is left
empty.
But I discovered that issuing "make install" will cause the
/usr/share/doc directory tree to be populated with the handbook html
files. This is what I was after from the beginning. Just the html files
by them selfs. I don't care where there at as long as its just the html
files only.
Other thing is "make clean" has to be issued between each cycle of "make
install".
One last thing. When I go to edit the chapter.xml content I see the text
wraped in notation. Is there a special term that this "notation" is
normally referred by?
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