Building a local copy of www.freebsd.org

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, 2005-Oct-08 12:01:55 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:03:26PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> I'm trying to build a local copy of the FreeBSD website so I can do some
>> experimenting and try to improve some of the things I don't like about
>> the new website.  Unfortunately, my attempt to build the website dies:
...
>> ===> news/2001
>> make: don't know how to make index.html. Stop

>It looks like you don't have an up-to-date copy of the XML bits.  Try
>checking out a fresh tree.

It turns out I had WEB_PREFIX set in /etc/make.conf and
$WEB_PREFIX/share was stale.  At this point in time, I can't
remember why I set WEB_PREFIX but removing it has fixed the problem.

Sorry for that false alarm.

I found another problem triggered by a local change I've made: I have
my troffrc set for A4 paper (.pl 29.7c) and this causes
doc/share/images/books/handbook/advanced-networking/net-routing.eps to
fail with reports of "blank page!!" and "no bounding box".  The
problem appears to be that "groff net-routing.pic" results in a small
picture right at the top of the page - apparently above the 11" point.
When "-sPAPERSIZE=letter" is specified during the EPS conversion, the
picture is cropped off, resulting in a blank page.  Is there a
particular reason for explicitly specifying the papersize in the EPS
conversion?  The ps2epsi script doesn't bother doing this.

-- 
Peter Jeremy