4 This text assumes the following directory structure:
6 Distribution text files (eg. AUTHORS, NEWS, ...):
15 Tool specific XML docs:
16 valgrind/<toolname>/docs/
18 All images used in the docs:
21 Stylesheets, catalogs, parsing/formatting scripts:
25 docs/xml/index.xml: Top-level book-set wrapper
26 docs/xml/FAQ.xml: The FAQ
27 docs/valgrind-manpage.xml The valgrind manpage
28 docs/xml/vg-entities.xml: Various strings, dates etc. used all over
29 docs/xml/xml_help.txt: Basic guide to common XML tags.
31 The docs/internals directory contains some useful high-level stuff about
32 Valgrind's internals. It's not relevant for the rest of this discussion.
37 The Documentation Set contains all books, articles, manpages,
38 etc. pertaining to Valgrind, and is designed to be built as:
44 The whole thing is a "book set", made up of multiple books (the user
45 manual, the FAQ, the tech-docs, the licenses). Each book could be
46 made individually, but the build system doesn't do that.
48 CSS: the style-sheet used by the docs is the same as that used by the
49 website (consistency is king). It might be worth doing a pre-build diff
50 to check whether the website stylesheet has changed.
55 It's not obvious exactly when things get built, and so on. Here's an
58 - The HTML docs can be built manually by running 'make html-docs' in
59 valgrind/docs/. (Don't use 'make html'; that is a valid built-in
60 automake target, but does nothing.) Likewise for PDF/PS with 'make
63 - 'make dist' (nb: at the top level, not in docs/) puts the XML files
64 into the tarball. It also builds the HTML docs and puts them in too,
65 in valgrind/docs/html/ (including style sheets, images, etc).
67 - 'make install' installs the HTML docs in
68 $(install)/share/doc/valgrind/html/, if they are present. (They will
69 be present if you are installing from the result of a 'make dist'.
70 They might not be present if you are developing in a git workspace and
71 have not built them.) It doesn't install the XML docs, as they're not
74 If the XML processing tools ever mature enough to become standard, we
75 could just build the docs from XML when doing 'make install', which
79 Notes on building HTML / PDF / PS documents
80 -------------------------------------------
81 Below are random notes and recollections about how to build documents
82 from the XML source at various times on various Linux distros. They're
83 mostly about the PDF/PS documents, because they are the hardest to
89 The default pdf generation has switched to xmlto using fop.
90 Make sure to install the packages xmlto fop (and on Fedora
91 also xmlto-tex). For other package requirements, see below.
93 If fop is giving you trouble you can edit the docs/Makefile.am file
94 at the top to remove WITH_FOP. It will then fall back to pdfxmltex
95 for which you will need the hack described in "Notes [Mar 2015]".
97 On Fedora the pdftops command is provided by poppler-utils.
101 For Ubuntu 18.04, to build HTML docs I had to:
103 sudo apt-get install xsltproc
107 Fedora 25: the "Notes [Sept 2015]" are still valid. But to summarise,
108 two steps are necessary:
110 (1) install packages as listed below
111 (2) apply Mark's epstopdf-base.sty hack as documented in "Notes [Mar 2015]"
115 sudo dnf install texlive-xmltex texlive-xmltex-bin texlive-xmltex-doc \
116 texlive dblatex texlive-xmltex docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds \
117 docbook-style-xsl.noarch docbook-simple.noarch docbook-simple.noarch \
118 docbook-slides.noarch docbook-style-dsssl.noarch docbook-utils.noarch \
119 docbook-utils-pdf.noarch docbook5-schemas.noarch \
120 docbook5-style-xsl.noarch passivetex
125 Fedora 21 and 22: Had mucho trouble with building the print docs on
126 F21/22 even with the [Mar 2015] package set (or something similarish)
127 installed. Eventually installed "passivetex" and that fixes the
130 Installing the packages below on Fedora _might_ get you a working setup.
131 Also you need the epstopdf-base.sty hack detailed below.
133 texlive-xmltex texlive-xmltex-bin texlive-xmltex-doc texlive dblatex
134 texlive-xmltex docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds docbook-style-xsl.noarch
135 docbook-simple.noarch docbook-simple.noarch docbook-slides.noarch
136 docbook-style-dsssl.noarch docbook-utils.noarch
137 docbook-utils-pdf.noarch docbook5-schemas.noarch
138 docbook5-style-xsl.noarch passivetex
142 On Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS the following is known to work:
152 Additional the following lines need to be changed in
153 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf-base.sty
158 \expandafter\PrependGraphicsExtensions
160 \expandafter\AppendGraphicsExtensions
169 %% \expandafter\PrependGraphicsExtensions
171 %% \expandafter\AppendGraphicsExtensions
175 This hack was devised by Mark Wielaard.
180 On Ubuntu 10.04 there was a new capacity-related failure whilst
181 building the print docs in the run up to the 3.8.0 release. This was
182 fixed by editing /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and changing pool_size to
188 For Ubuntu 9.04, to build HTML docs I had to:
190 sudo apt-get install docbook docbook-xsl
192 Actually, I'm not sure if the 'docbook' is necessary, but 'docbook-xsl'
195 To build the man pages I also changed the Makefile.am to try this
198 /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
200 if it can't find this one:
202 /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl
204 I haven't succeeded in building the print docs.
209 For SuSE 10.1, I have to install the following packages to get a
210 working toolchain. Non-indented ones I asked YaST to install;
211 indented ones are extras it added on:
216 docbook-dsssl-stylesheets
218 docbook-xsl-stylesheets
229 pdfxmltex still bombs when building the print docs. On SuSE 10.1 I
230 edited /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf and changed
231 pool_size.pdfxmltex = 500000
233 pool_size.pdfxmltex = 1500000
236 It is also reported that the print docs build OK on Fedora Core 5.
241 After upgrading to Suse 10, found a (known) bug in PassiveTex which
242 broke the build, so added a bug-fix to 'docs/lib/vg-fo.xsl'.
243 Bug-fix related links:
244 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200509/msg00032.html
245 http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/tools.html#d850e300
246 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/2005-January.txt
251 jrs had to install zillions of packages on SuSE 9.2 in order to
252 build the print docs (make print-docs), including
254 xpdf (for pdftops, which does the nicest job)
256 Even then, pdfxmltex eventually dies with "TeX capacity exceeded,
257 sorry [pool size = 67555]" or some such. To fix this, he edited
258 /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and changed
259 pool_size.pdfxmltex = 500000
261 pool_size.pdfxmltex = 1500000
267 - the end of file.xml must have only ONE newline after the last tag:
269 - pdfxmltex barfs if given a filename with an underscore in it
274 - samba have got all the stuff
275 http://websvn.samba.org/listing.php?rep=4&path=/trunk/&opt=dir&sc=1
277 excellent on-line howto reference:
278 - http://www.cogent.ca/
280 using automake with docbook:
281 - http://www.movement.uklinux.net/docs/docbook-autotools/index.html
283 Debugging catalog processing:
284 - http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html#Declaring
285 xmlcatalog -v <catalog-file>
287 shell script to generate xml catalogs for docbook 4.1.2:
288 - http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/docbook.html
290 configure.in re pdfxmltex
291 - http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/logreport/service/configure.in?rev=1.325
293 some useful xls stylesheets in cvs:
294 - http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/perl-xml/perl-xml-faq/
299 - concat titlepage + subtitle page in fo output
300 - try and get the QuickStart and FAQ titlepage+toc+content onto one page