Re: [docs] Docs build/workers need inkscape?

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 12:43 +0200, Quentin Schulz via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 10/12/24 11:19 AM, Richard Purdie via lists.yoctoproject.org
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > We've seeing docs build failures:
> > 
> > https://valkyrie.yoctoproject.org//#/builders/34/builds/6
> > 
> > The issue is that inkscape isn't installed on the workers and isn't
> > in
> > the docs buildtools tarball either.
> > 
> > I'm reluctant to start requiring installing inkscape on all
> > autobuilder
> > workers as we try and keep the packages installed minimal for the
> > other
> > builds.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if we should just pre-generate those png files
> > alongside
> > the svg sources? I can send a patch doing that...
> > 
> 
> This will necessarily mean we'll forget to update one or the other :/
> It's bound to happen.

Well, one is clearly derived from the other and listed in the makefile
so I'd hope that makes it clear and relatively easy to fix.

I know what you mean though.

> librsvg is Rust-based IIRC, so that adds up A LOT of build time to 
> generate the buildtools tarball.

I think that ship has sailed...

> For my company's user manual, we use rsvg-convert (which seems to be 
> coming from librsvg :) ).

That could be easier for us to build rather than the whole of inkscape.

Cheers,

Richard