Start of Systemtap Tapset Reference manual

William Cohen wcohen@redhat.com
Tue Nov 11 16:45:00 GMT 2008


Hi all,

The infrastructure is in place to extract xml from the files in systemtap/tapset 
for the reference manual. I have taken the documentation from the timestamp 
functions and placed it in the timestamp.stp file. The xml in the timestamp.stp 
file is preceded by ///.

The process of generating the document is fairly simple. Go to the 
systemtap/doc/SystemTap_Tapset_Reference. If there have been changes to the 
tapset files, the xml can extracted from the tapset files with:

make extract-xml

You will need to have publican installed on the computer to build the pdf or 
html files. There are instructions on publican at:

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/PublicanQuikHowto

Once publican is installed make the pdf with:

make pdf-en-US

Or if HTML is desired:

make html-en-US

The resulting output will be in placed in the appropriate directory:

systemtap/doc/SystemTap_Tapset_Reference/tmp/pdf
systemtap/doc/SystemTap_Tapset_Reference/tmp/html

I have attached the current Tapset_Reference.pdf to get feedback on this process 
  and refine it, so I don't have to revise a bunch of entries.

-Will
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