[phobos] How to build the Phobos docs?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday 03 February 2011 23:12:53 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2011 11:28:47 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > I looked into this and I don't know what the best way is.
> > 
> > Essentially it makes little sense to build Phobos without having the
> > site around. Practically this is because std.ddoc is in the
> > d-programming-language.org repository (as I think it should).
> > 
> > If you have this structure:
> > 
> > somedir/
> > 
> >    phobos/
> >    d-programming-language.org/
> > 
> > it all works automatically. If you have d-programming-language.org
> > elsewhere, do this:
> > 
> > make html DOCSRC=/path/to/d-programming-language.org
> > 
> > Suggestions for improving this are welcome.
> 
> Okay. I'm just totally confused now. make -f posix.mak html in Phobos just
> plain doesn't work. It always gives this error:
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target `../web/phobos-prerelease/phobos.html',
> needed by `html'.  Stop.
> 
> It's looking for ../web, which doesn't exist. If I run make -f linux.mak in
> d- programming-language.org, then ../web gets created, but there's still
> no phobos.html file, and telling Phobos to make html still fails. And it's
> not like d-programming-language.org went and created all of Phobos' html
> files either. ../web-phobos-prerelease/ is completely empty.
> 
> So, I really don't know what I'm supposed to do to build the docs. I was
> pretty much expecting make -f posix.mak html in phobos to work (which it
> used to) - even if it required ../d-programming-language.org to be there.
> But it doesn't work, and I don't know what to do. Either I'm totally
> misunderstanding something here, or you have something on your machine
> which isn't in the repositories.

Any update or clarification on this? I'd really like to be able to build the 
phobos docs. It's a lot harder to edit documentation and verify how it looks 
when building the documentation doesn't work.

- Jonathan M Davis