[phobos] How to build the Phobos docs?

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 03:24 -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2011 03:16:26 Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> > When I run "make -f posix.mak html" I now get the message
> > 
> >          make: *** No rule to make target
> >         `../web/phobos-prerelease/phobos.html', needed by `html'. Stop.
> > 
> > If I create the file manually, I get more of the same:
> > 
> >         make: *** No rule to make target
> >         `../web/phobos-prerelease/std_algorithm.html', needed by `html'.
> >         Stop.
> > 
> > Is the makefile broken, or is there something I need to do before
> > running make?
> 
> I believe that the Makefile is broken. It relies on files that used to be in 
> another subdirectory of the parent directory that Phobos is in. However, with 
> the move to git, there is no parent directory in the repository. So, there is no 
> adjacent directory with the necessary files. So, the html build doesn't work.
> 
> Supposedly, Andrei is going to fix it, but I don't believe that he's checked in a 
> fix thus far. So, for the moment, building the docs doesn't work. I'm not sure 
> what Andrei is getting it to work on his machine (since he's obviously been 
> doing it), but until he fixes the Makefile, you can't just run make html and build 
> the docs like you should be able to.

I just realised that we don't have access to the changelog anymore
either...

-Lars