=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.140 retrieving revision 1.150 diff -u -p -r1.140 -r1.150 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/09/02 14:00:09 1.140 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/12/10 23:44:42 1.150 @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
-- mdocml – mdoc macro compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@) + mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
Sources: current, @@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; - and mandocdb, for indexing manuals. + mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and + apropos, whatis, and + man.cgi (via catman) for semantic search of manual content. It is a BSD.lv project.
@@ -51,11 +53,13 @@ Sources
- mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system.
- To build and install into /usr/local/, just run make install
.
- Be aware: if you have an existing groff installation, this may overwrite its preconv binary.
- The mandocdb utility is not yet linked to the build; please contact
- us if you plan to use it.
+ mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
+ need libdb to build apropos, whatis, man.cgi, catman, and mandocdb (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
+ systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and install into /usr/local/, just
+ run make install
. Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are
+ usually taken by existing utilities.
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