Re: building pdfs

On 07/26/2014 02:22 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-07-26 14:14:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that
>>> will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on
>>> either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but maybe I'm missing something.
>> On either Fedora or RHEL, installing the "authoring tools" package group
>> (not quite the right name, but it's close) has worked for me for many
>> years. I've not bothered to figure out what the minimum required subset
>> of that might be.
>>
>> Not sure what the Debian equivalent is, but borka/guaibasaurus is able to
>> build the docs, so the packages certainly are available. Peter might have
>> a better idea.
> 'apt-get build-dep postgresql-$version' IIRC does the trick
> there. Installs a thing or two more, but those are things that a debian
> buildfarm member is going have installed anyway.

Yes, I did that and generated a PDF, but I got an enormous number of
errors or warnings. See
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9n4hhijin3qn8mw/postgres-US.log> for example.

cheers

andrew