Re: svn co and build of PHP manual could be clearer

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote: > > > >> The trouble with only downloading en/ (due to the incorrect svn > >> checkout reference), you're missing the doc-base/ directory that the > >> HOWTO refers to. So all the scripts, the README, but most > >> importantly the configure.php script... you had no chance! :) > > > > that's what i had immediately assumed but, as you obviously realize, > > i was simply working off of what i read here: > > > > http://php.net/svn.php > > > > later this weekend, i'll "svn up" and see what it takes to build the > > docs from the checkout. > > Yeah, thanks for discovering this most unfortunate bug. And you may > as well delete that checkout because it'll never contain the proper > structure. Eventually svn.php will update because it's fixed in SVN, > and mirrors update about every hour. Or, checking out doc-base/ next > to en/ works too. will do. i assume the eventually proper instructions for checking out the manual will be something like: 1) check out generic doc-base infrastructure, followed by 2) check out subdir of language of interest or something like that. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================