Re: v25.0 ninja install failure on pandoc-prebuilt using git tree or release tarball

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:45:21PM -0400, James Harvey wrote:

> As-is, building v25 from the git repo has a new build requirement of
> rst2man, which isn't documented in the release notes or in the readme.
> (On Arch, part of the python-docutils package.)  I haven't directly
> used pandoc or rst2man before, so I don't know if rst2man was added to
> be an alternative to pandoc, or ran in addition to it. 

Both are required.

> I looked at switching to the release tarballs (rdma-core-25.0.tar.gz),
> which of course has the prebuilt man pages.  I assume doing this
> should completely prevent needing pandoc and rst2man.  But, then
> "ninja install" fails from not finding
> "pandoc-prebuilt/32acf8c8016edc90e7adedc5be9caecd9b8abb3e", which I do
> see is not among the 81 directories in "pandoc-prebuilt/" in
> "rdma-core-25.0.tar.gz".  Were some of the necessary prebuilt files
> not included in the 25 tarball?

Hum, it will be hard to tell what is going wrong without knowing what
is in that file - if you have pandoc and rst2man installed then
build/pandoc-rebuilt should contain it.

Jason