PostgreSQL 9.4.1 Documentation
Prev	Up	Appendix J. Documentation	Next

J.2. Tool Sets

The following tools are used to process the documentation. Some might be optional, as noted.

DocBook DTD

This is the definition of DocBook itself. We currently use version 4.2; you cannot use later or earlier versions. You need theSGML variant of the DocBook DTD, but to build man pages you also need the XML variant of the same version.

ISO 8879 character entities

These are required by DocBook but are distributed separately because they are maintained by ISO.

DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets

These contain the processing instructions for converting the DocBook sources to other formats, such asHTML.

DocBook XSL Stylesheets

This is another stylesheet for converting DocBook to other formats. We currently use this to produce man pages and optionally HTMLHelp. You can also use this toolchain to produce HTML or PDF output, but official PostgreSQL releases use the DSSSL stylesheets for that.

The minimum required version is currently 1.74.0.

OpenJade

This is the base package ofSGML processing. It contains an SGML parser, a DSSSL processor (that is, a program to convert SGML to other formats using DSSSL stylesheets), as well as a number of related tools.Jade is now being maintained by the OpenJade group, no longer by James Clark.

Libxslt forxsltproc

This is the processing tool to use with the XSLT stylesheets (likejade is the processing tool for DSSSL stylesheets).

JadeTeX

If you want to, you can also installJadeTeX to useTeX as a formatting backend forJade.JadeTeX can create PostScript orPDF files (the latter with bookmarks).

However, the output fromJadeTeX is inferior to what you get from the RTF backend. Particular problem areas are tables and various artifacts of vertical and horizontal spacing. Also, there is no opportunity to manually polish the results.

We have documented experience with several installation methods for the various tools that are needed to process the documentation. These will be described below. There might be some other packaged distributions for these tools. Please report package status to the documentation mailing list, and we will include that information here.

J.2.1.Linux RPM Installation

Most vendors provide a complete RPM set for DocBook processing in their distribution. Look for an"SGML" option while installing, or the following packages:sgml-common,docbook,stylesheets,openjade (orjade). You may also needsgml-tools and eitherxsltproc orlibxslt. If your distributor does not provide these then you should be able to make use of the packages from some other, reasonably compatible vendor.

J.2.2. FreeBSD Installation

The FreeBSD Documentation Project is itself a heavy user of DocBook, so it comes as no surprise that there is a full set of"ports" of the documentation tools available on FreeBSD. The following ports need to be installed to build the documentation on FreeBSD.

textproc/sp
textproc/openjade
textproc/iso8879
textproc/dsssl-docbook-modular
textproc/docbook-420

A number of things from/usr/ports/print (tex,jadetex) might also be of interest.

It's possible that the ports do not update the main catalog file in/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports or that the order isn't proper. Be sure to have the following lines in the beginning of the file:

CATALOG "openjade/catalog"CATALOG "iso8879/catalog"CATALOG "docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog"CATALOG "docbook/4.2/catalog"

If you do not want to edit the file you can also set the environment variableSGML_CATALOG_FILES to a colon-separated list of catalog files (such as the one above).

More information about the FreeBSD documentation tools can be found in the FreeBSD Documentation Project's instructions.

J.2.3. Debian Packages

There is a full set of packages of the documentation tools available forDebian GNU/Linux. To install, simply use:

apt-get install docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-xsl openjade1.3 opensp xsltproc

J.2.4. OS X

If you use MacPorts, the following will get you set up:

sudo port install docbook-dsssl docbook-sgml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xsl libxslt openjade opensp

J.2.5. Manual Installation from Source

The manual installation process of the DocBook tools is somewhat complex, so if you have pre-built packages available, use them. We describe here only a standard setup, with reasonably standard installation paths, and no"fancy" features. For details, you should study the documentation of the respective package, and readSGML introductory material.

J.2.5.1. Installing OpenJade

The installation of OpenJade offers a GNU-style./configure; make; make install build process. Details can be found in the OpenJade source distribution. In a nutshell:
```
./configure --enable-default-catalog=/usr/local/share/sgml/catalogmakemake install
```
Be sure to remember where you put the"default catalog"; you will need it below. You can also leave it off, but then you will have to set the environment variableSGML_CATALOG_FILES to point to the file whenever you usejade later on. (This method is also an option if OpenJade is already installed and you want to install the rest of the toolchain locally.)
Note: Some users have reported encountering a segmentation fault using OpenJade 1.4devel to build the PDFs, with a message like:
```
openjade:./stylesheet.dsl:664:2:E: flow object not accepted by port; only display flow objects acceptedmake: *** [postgres-A4.tex-pdf] Segmentation fault
```
Downgrading to OpenJade 1.3 should get rid of this error.
Additionally, you should install the filesdsssl.dtd,fot.dtd,style-sheet.dtd, andcatalog from thedsssl directory somewhere, perhaps into/usr/local/share/sgml/dsssl. It's probably easiest to copy the entire directory:
```
cp -R dsssl /usr/local/share/sgml
```
Finally, create the file/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog and add this line to it:
```
CATALOG "dsssl/catalog"
```
(This is a relative path reference to the file installed instep 2. Be sure to adjust it if you chose your installation layout differently.)

J.2.5.2. Installing theDocBook DTD Kit

Obtain the DocBook V4.2 distribution.
Create the directory/usr/local/share/sgml/docbook-4.2 and change to it. (The exact location is irrelevant, but this one is reasonable within the layout we are following here.)
```
$mkdir /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook-4.2$cd /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook-4.2
```
Unpack the archive:
```
$unzip -a ...../docbook-4.2.zip
```
(The archive will unpack its files into the current directory.)
Edit the file/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog (or whatever you told jade during installation) and put a line like this into it:
```
CATALOG "docbook-4.2/docbook.cat"
```
Download the ISO 8879 character entities archive, unpack it, and put the files in the same directory you put the DocBook files in:
```
$cd /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook-4.2$unzip ...../ISOEnts.zip
```
Run the following command in the directory with the DocBook and ISO files:
```
perl -pi -e 's/iso-(.*).gml/ISO\1/g' docbook.cat
```
(This fixes a mixup between the names used in the DocBook catalog file and the actual names of the ISO character entity files.)

J.2.5.3. Installing the DocBook DSSSL Style Sheets

To install the style sheets, unzip and untar the distribution and move it to a suitable place, for example/usr/local/share/sgml. (The archive will automatically create a subdirectory.)

$gunzip docbook-dsssl-1.xx.tar.gz$tar -C /usr/local/share/sgml -xf docbook-dsssl-1.xx.tar

The usual catalog entry in/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog can also be made:

CATALOG "docbook-dsssl-1.xx/catalog"

Because stylesheets change rather often, and it's sometimes beneficial to try out alternative versions,PostgreSQL doesn't use this catalog entry. SeeSection J.2.6 for information about how to select the stylesheets instead.

J.2.5.4. InstallingJadeTeX

To install and useJadeTeX, you will need a working installation ofTeX andLaTeX2e, including the supportedtools andgraphics packages,Babel,AMS fonts andAMS-LaTeX, the PSNFSS extension and companion kit of"the 35 fonts", thedvips program for generatingPostScript, the macro packagesfancyhdr,hyperref,minitoc,url andot2enc. All of these can be found on your friendly neighborhood CTAN site. The installation of theTeX base system is far beyond the scope of this introduction. Binary packages should be available for any system that can runTeX.

Before you can useJadeTeX with thePostgreSQL documentation sources, you will need to increase the size ofTeX's internal data structures. Details on this can be found in theJadeTeX installation instructions.

Once that is finished you can installJadeTeX:

$gunzip jadetex-xxx.tar.gz$tar xf jadetex-xxx.tar$cd jadetex$make install$mktexlsr

The last two need to be done asroot.

J.2.6. Detection by`configure`

Before you can build the documentation you need to run theconfigure script as you would when building thePostgreSQL programs themselves. Check the output near the end of the run, it should look something like this:

checking for onsgmls... onsgmlschecking for openjade... openjadechecking for DocBook V4.2... yeschecking for DocBook stylesheets... /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modularchecking for collateindex.pl... /usr/bin/collateindex.plchecking for xsltproc... xsltprocchecking for osx... osx

If neitheronsgmls nornsgmls were found then some of the following tests will be skipped.nsgmls is part of the Jade package. You can pass the environment variablesJADE andNSGMLS to configure to point to the programs if they are not found automatically. If"DocBook V4.2" was not found then you did not install the DocBook DTD kit in a place where Jade can find it, or you have not set up the catalog files correctly. See the installation hints above. The DocBook stylesheets are looked for in a number of relatively standard places, but if you have them some other place then you should set the environment variableDOCBOOKSTYLE to the location and rerunconfigure afterwards.

Prev	Home	Next
DocBook	Up	Building The Documentation

Movatterモバイル変換