[Openswan Users] Question on the Docs

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Nick Howitt wrote:

> I've tried a fresh install of 2.6.23 and in /usr/share/doc/openswan all I get 
> is:

[html files]

We should probably phase those out and just have the man files and put the
html files on the web.

> If I download 2.6.26, un-tar it and make programs,  in

2.6.23 I guess?

> openswan-2.6.23\OBJ.linux.i386\programs\_confread I can see ipsec.conf.5. If 
> I then make install,  in openswan-2.6.23\programs\_confread I can see 
> ipsec.conf.5.xml but I cannot find the files post-install.

but the xml file is only converted to man files if you have "xmlto" installed.
If you don't have xmlto, the pre-existing man files are installed. They might
be out of date but should not be out of date.

> If I do  make install > /usr/src/makeinstalllog, I see three lines in the 
> console which, presumably, are errors:
> Writing ipsec_pluto.8 for refentry(pluto8)
> Writing ipsec.secrets.5 for refentry
> Writing ipsec.conf.5 for refentry

No that's fine.

Paul