Re: having problems with building the manpages

[Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, VMiklos wrote:

> hi,
>
> the man branch of git.git contains the following lines in git-diff.1:
>
> EXAMPLES
>       Various ways to check your working tree
>
>              $ git diff            (1)
>              $ git diff --cached   (2)
>              $ git diff HEAD       (3)
>
>              1. changes in the working tree not yet staged for the next commit.
>              2. changes between the index and your last commit; what you would be committing if you run "git
>              commit" without "-a" option.
>              3. changes in the working tree since your last commit; what you would be committing if you run
>              "git commit -a"
>
> when building the manpages myself i get the followings:
>
> EXAMPLES
>       Various ways to check your working tree
>
>               $ git diff            \fB(1)\fR
>               $ git diff --cached   \fB(2)\fR
>               $ git diff HEAD       \fB(3)\fR
>           .sp \fB1. \fRchanges in the working tree not yet staged for the next commit.
>
>           .br \fB2. \fRchanges between the index and your last commit; what you would be committing if you run
>           "git commit" without "-a" option.
>
>           .br \fB3. \fRchanges in the working tree since your last commit; what you would be committing if you
>           run "git commit -a"
>
>           .br
>
> what can be the problem?
>
> i have asciidoc-8.2.2 and docbook-xml 4.2 installed. i'm building with
> ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease.
>
> if i missed any required info, please mention :)

Are you using docbook xsl 1.72?  There are known problems building the 
manpages with that version.  1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get 
released.

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Julian

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