How to build this documentation from the source

Pre-requisites for a simple build, or to update man pages:

Additional prerequisites to include the API reference based on Doxygen markup:

  • Python 2.5 with the Cheetah, lxml, and xml modules

  • Doxygen

Simple build without API reference

To test simple changes to the RST sources, you can build the documentation without the Doxygen reference by running, from the doc directory:

sphinx-build . test_html

You will see a number of warnings about missing files. This is expected. If there is not already a doc/version.py file, you will need to create one by first running make version.py in the src/doc directory of a configured build tree.

Updating man pages

Man pages are generated from the RST sources and checked into the src/man directory of the repository. This allows man pages to be installed without requiring Sphinx when using a source checkout. To regenerate these files, run make man from the man subdirectory of a configured build tree. You can also do this from an unconfigured source tree with:

cd src/man
make -f Makefile.in top_srcdir=.. srcdir=. man
make clean

As with the simple build, it is normal to see warnings about missing files when rebuilding the man pages.

Building for a release tarball or web site

To generate documentation in HTML format, run make html in the doc subdirectory of a configured build tree (the build directory corresponding to src/doc, not the top-level doc directory). The output will be placed in the top-level doc/html directory. This build will include the API reference generated from Doxygen markup in the source tree.

Documentation generated this way will use symbolic names for paths (like BINDIR for the directory containing user programs), with the symbolic names being links to a table showing typical values for those paths.

You can also do this from an unconfigured source tree with:

cd src/doc
make -f Makefile.in SPHINX_ARGS= htmlsrc

Building for an OS package or site documentation

To generate documentation specific to a build of MIT krb5 as you have configured it, run make substhtml in the doc subdirectory of a configured build tree (the build directory corresponding to src/doc, not the top-level doc directory). The output will be placed in the html_subst subdirectory of that build directory. This build will include the API reference.

Documentation generated this way will use concrete paths (like /usr/local/bin for the directory containing user programs, for a default custom build).