After a couple of hours fighting, I finally went through a way to compile documentation of postgres under Ubuntu Lucid.
For man pages and html, you need the following packages.
docbook-xsl
docbook
docbook2x
docbook-dsssl
jade
Then, before running configure, the following setup is necessary:
export DOCBOOKSTYLE=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular
Compilation of html pages need the following command in doc/src/sgml:
make html
Result is then found in doc/src/sgml/html.
Compilation of man pages need the following command in doc/src/sgml:
make man
Result is then found in doc/src/sgml/manX. X being 1, 3 or 7.
Then when compiling the code for pdf documentation, the following package is required.
pdfjadetex
Be aware that this had dependencies with tex, and several packages.
Compilation of pdf is done with the following command:
make postgres-A4.pdf
However, pdf compilation still shows issues due to incorrect parameters in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.
hash_extra = 50000
hash_size.mpost = 120000
