Re: how to convert man pages?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 11 May 2008 5:24:32 am Giorgio Lando wrote:
> Hi, the package of offlineimap for my distribution (archlinux) does not
> install the man pages, because they are unable to convert
> offlineimap.sgml to a standard man page. So I am trying to do this
> conversion myself, but the conversion fails for me too.
> I have installed docbook2x (including docbook2man) version 0.8.8 and the
> perl module xml-sax version 0.16, then I try to run:
>
> docbook2man offlineimap.sgml

You can look at the doc target in Makefile for how I build it on Debian.  I 
use docbook2man offlineimap.sgml as well, which works fine.  However, that 
is from the docbook-utils package on Debian (don't know if it's the same 
file you've got).  Your errors are weird; it seems to not know how to parse 
SGML somehow.

-- John