Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[Todd Vierling <tv%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On 29 Oct 2001, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

: > Add plaintext and HTML generated versions of the BUILDING document.
:
: I have a philosophical objection to having documents here that could
: be easily generated from the source file, but I won't argue loudly.

Well, I took these two as exceptions.  You can generate a lot more formats
with groff, but HTML and cross-platform-readable plaintext provide an easy
point of entry into reading the document from a fresh tree.  After all, if
you're cross-building on System X with a very old *roff or none at all,
BUILDING.mdoc is pretty damned unreadable.  8-)

Note that I plan to make some <bsd.*.mk> generic rules to be used by
src/distrib/notes as well as BUILDING, for all of the various formats such
as .txt, .html, .more, .ps, .pdf.

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