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+#
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.1 1999-05-03 14:37:25 kuriyama Exp $
+# Original Revision:	1.1
+#
+# Build the FreeBSD Handbook *outside* of the www tree, and install it
+# in to the right place as necessary.
+#
+# The Handbook is no longer completely self contained in doc/en/handbook,
+# (it requires support files outside of this directory) and it is much
+# simpler to build it outside the web tree than it is to make a nest of
+# symlinks to try and build it inside the tree.
+#
+# This assumes that you have the www/ and doc/ trees checked out beside
+# one another -- this was always the case anyway, so there are no extra
+# requirements here.
+#
+
+all install clean:
+	(cd ../../../doc/ja/handbook; make FORMATS=html-split DOC_PREFIX=../../../doc DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} DOCDIR=/data VOLUME=handbook ${.TARGET})