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# Manpages

We use the docbook2man utility to convert DocBook `REFENTRY` pages to *roff output suitable for man pages. At the time of writing, the utility required patching to successfully run on the Postgres markup, and we added a small amount of new functionality to allow setting the man page section in the output file name.

docbook2man is written in perl, and requires the CPAN package `SGMLSpm` to run. Also, it requires nsgmls to be available, which is included in the jade distribution. After installing these packages, then simply run

    $ cd doc/src
    $ make man

which will result in a tar file being generated in the `doc/src` directory.

docbook2man Installation Procedure

1. Install the docbook2man package, available at http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/

2. Install the SGMLSpm perl module, available from CPAN mirrors.

3. Install nsgmls if not already available from your jade installation.

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