[gdal-dev] autoconf and nmake build systems ready to be removed

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, Even Rouault wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Great news: the final step of the CMake migration (checklist in 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/5680), the removal of the autoconf 
> and nmake build systems (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6110) is now 
> ready to be merged.
>
> Are there people who track GDAL master and still use autoconf/nmake and 
> would need some grace period to complete their transition to cmake ?

How do I build and install docs/manpage with cmake ?

# cd /home/werdna/git/gdal.build.llvm/doc
# make manpages
Generating ../man/man1/gdalinfo.1, ../man/man1/gdal-config.1, ../man/man1/ogrlinfo.1, ../man/man1/ogr2ogr.1
warning: argument 'a4wide' for option PAPER_TYPE is not a valid enum value
Using the default: a4!
error: tag HTML_FOOTER: footer file '/home/werdna/git/gdal/doc/gdal_footer.html' does not exist
Exiting...
make[3]: *** [doc/CMakeFiles/manpages.dir/build.make:76: man/man1/gdalinfo.1] Error 1
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:11041: doc/CMakeFiles/manpages.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:11048: doc/CMakeFiles/manpages.dir/rule] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:204: doc/CMakeFiles/manpages.dir/rule] Error 2

(This machine is running Ubuntu 22.04/jammy )

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